- High School
- |
- 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
- High School And College
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I came through the ranks in wrestling - in high school and college - those systems have been in place for 100 years, and they're fairly standard training across the board for all the colleges.
- High
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.
- High School
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are high school sweethearts.
- High School
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't shuffling from one sport to the next that much. I had downtime to just be a high school student.
- Need
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.
- Prime Minister
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.
- Kid
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.
- Always
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I started acting when I was young, and I didn't go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside going to school and being a normal person.
- Education
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
- Parents
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were really encouraging of me doing theater, but the one thing they did do was say, 'You're not allowed to do film or television in high school.'
- Never
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
- Missed
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
- High School
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I had fallen in love with Cherry as a junior in high school. When I discovered she was going to go to Auburn, I was vacillating between Alabama and Kentucky because of Babe. I eliminated Kentucky because I wanted to be as close to Auburn as I could, and Tuscaloosa is a lot closer than Lexington is.
- Army
- |
- Nov 07, 2020