- Never
- |
- 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
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.
- Direction
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.
- Animal
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was always an animal lover. Even back in school and college, an animal in need of help was my responsibility.
- Exciting Time
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.
- Guitar
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
- Freshman Year
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future in track and field. I definitely did not think I could make it to the Olympics back then, though; I was just focused on making it to the state finals!
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.
- Law
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.
- Football
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball. And an incident happened in high school, and all that was taken away. No other teams, no other schools were recruiting me anymore.
- End
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I taught high school for one year in Deerfield Beach, Fla., and in the end, it was such an enjoyable experience breaking up fights daily, that I decided to return to the combat zone of Afghanistan.
- Smart
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.
- Bored
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school.
- First
- |
- Nov 07, 2020