- Nov 07, 2020
School Quotes
On learning, growing up and finding your own pace.
These quotes cover school in different forms: a childhood spent in Sunday school, being a late bloomer among faster-moving classmates, and skipping formal film training entirely to learn a craft directly. For lighter school-themed content, see our Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My go-to shoes for everyday would probably have to be either my white Converse that I've had since high school or my black Alexander McQueen flats with the skull on the top. It depends on my day.
- Nov 07, 2020
I started my own martial arts school at 16. And by the time I was 21, I had three different schools.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it was one of the bricks, the building bricks, that you had to understand about the forms of writing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to have a protest folk band in high school, and I wrote all my own songs. Then, in the B-52s, we would write collectively.
- Nov 07, 2020