In School Quotes

I first saw Dead Man in high school, and it changed everything. That movie was like a memory to me - I would get things that occurred in that movie confused with my actual life.

One of my friends committed suicide when I was in high school, and it's the most tragic thing anybody can go through.

I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.

If you'd have asked me when I was auditioning for High School Musical if I ever thought I was going to play a Marine.

I started cooking out of middle school depression.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

I always wanted to direct movies. That's what I set out to do. When I was a little kid I just dreamed of making movies, and I went to film school [at Northwestern University].

I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.

I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience.

Anyone that is able to put a high school film and gonzo journalism together, it's like, "Yes, please!"

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that's what I wanted to do.

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

There's nothing like a good conservatory drama school to really get you ready for the work force.

True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that.

Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool.

I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.

I don't subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn't dabble in television, web content, or even comic books...

We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.

We believe in a whole-school approach to ICT.

Whatever, I copied all through school, and look how well I’m doing today.

All of my close friends have been in my life for years. My best friends are all people I met in grade school, going back as far as 3rd grade.

I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school, it doesn't mean you can't go big.

I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.

I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me.

My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a kind of school for courage, willpower and self-confidence.

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.

When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.

Where do find the most persecuted Christians in the world?... in the classrooms of our government schools, where the assault is not upon the body, but the soul.

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

It's never much fun at school - it's just dates. Then as you get older, for some reason, you get more interested.

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.

School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

I was at school when Britney Spears' 'Baby One More Time' came out. I changed my uniform to look like hers. I just looked slutty after that, so thank you, Britney.

At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream.