- Me
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- 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
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.
- Fueled
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I trained as a singer before I was an actor. I was a kid singer, I went to theater and choir school, and then I got music scholarships throughout my education. And that's what I was going to do. And then I took a left turn and went to drama school and became an actor.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum always had fun on shoots, but afterwards, she would pick us up from school and make dinner. I had a pretty normal childhood.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, in high school I thought Catholicism was funny and sort of ridiculous, but then I also liked it, too. Like, I definitely turned to it in times of trouble.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't thrive in a school or academic environment, I found out. I thrive better in the world outside the small academy because I find it hard to explain what I'm doing.
- Piano
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing piano when I was eight, and I went on to study piano in school, so I have a background in classical piano and studied composition in school. Writing music came later.
- Forgotten
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- Nov 07, 2020
When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.
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- Nov 07, 2020