- High School
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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
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Orlando is such a kind person. He's so generous and one of us, 'us' meaning a theater person. What a lot of people don't know about him is that, before 'Lord of the Rings,' he went to theater school like a lot of us. He is just really sweet and hard working.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.
- Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.
- Grade School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did plays in grade school.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I commuted an hour and a half each way to high school in N.Y.C. I took a bus, a ferry, then a subway.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, it's all I've wanted to do. I did local plays and productions, local theater groups and anything that involved it. And then, I went and studied it, attended drama school and got my first lucky break in the theater in London, and just went from there.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
- Nov 07, 2020
The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of laser discs in the Bay Area. One guy owned all of them.
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a vocal performance major, I went to school with a lot of singers who were cocky and not very nice.
- Driving Force
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- Nov 07, 2020