- Boarding
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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
- Doctor Who
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Michigan and - where to start? I mean, my dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public school teacher. There's no artists in my family whatsoever.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a total theater geek in high school, no question. I was cast in 'Godspell' freshman year - with Vanessa Williams, by the way. She and I are still friends. We went to high school together.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.
- Grail
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.
- Liking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always remember liking school.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Three high schools. I was funny. I thought I was being funny. I just had an opinion about everything that was said in school, so that got me thrown out.
- Art College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man, I was a troubled kid. I was going to get kicked out of a Christian school and got sent to military school for a year and a half, and I didn't really have much direction until I got the opportunity to drive race cars.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020