- Breakfast
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
- Jump
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll at FAO Schwartz when I was in high school. And I think that it's made me really disciplined when it came to pursuing acting, because I had no clue how to go about it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
- Nov 07, 2020