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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
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Canada, none of my family were performers or anything like that, but I was terrible at hockey, so they needed something for me to do on Saturdays for me to get out of the house. I signed up for theater school on Saturdays, and I'd go for four-and-a-half hours every Saturday morning and learn about theater.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
- Emphasized
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was doing auditions and meetings during the day and going to culinary school at night. And then 'NCIS' happened. So I dropped out of culinary school.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a wild kid in high school. I liked to get crazy and be rebellious and go to parties and do all that kind of stuff.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you know, if I go to a Jewish school, them kids are quiet. If I go to a white school, them kids quiet. If I go to a Latino school, they quiet. The only kids that disrespect me is black kids. That's it - my own are the only ones that disrespect me.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
- Close Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
- Fellow Students
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- Nov 07, 2020