- Children
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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
- Bump
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an English school.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this accent that I think everybody has when they grow up going to an international school. It's a mix of not quite English, not quite American. When I moved to L.A., it just went completely American.
- Closest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been the popular one in my school, in my town. Everyone always knew who I was.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle school. Then, when high school came, I went to normal high school for a little while before auditioning for the Governor's School for Arts and Humanities.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to write. English is my favorite subject in school.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Harry Potter' is the first book that ever got me into reading. I had to read it in year 7, for school, and then I kept reading all of them.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always the biggest nerd in school: I had very few friends; I was always picked on; I used to wear really big glasses. I was the epitome of a nerd.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could be playing high school until I'm, like, 30 or something, at the rate I'm growing.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved drama class at school. I never took it seriously, as I was playing football. But maybe when I retire, I'll have a dabble.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020