- Drama
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old fiction room at my high school was a small box of wonders, and no matter how long I spent investigating its seven and a half overstuffed shelves, I never stopped discovering treasures.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.
- Forgotten
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Cleveland and started doing plays in high school. And I went to the University of Illinois, and I majored in drama. And after school, I went up to Chicago, because I didn't really know anybody in New York or Los Angeles, and I knew people who were doing plays in Chicago.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.
- Nov 07, 2020
Regardless of whether it is playing for your school team or playing for Manchester United, winning is great.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business but it's not always possible these days, sadly.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heroes were people like Jim Jarmusch. Scorsese was my god. Spike Lee was exciting, doing exactly what we thought we were going to do: personal movies based in, and about, New York. My heroes were all participating in an economic model that was collapsing as I was finishing film school.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been a twisty-turny path for me. I was studying to be a history professor, and then I left that, went to film school, and tried to be like my heroes, like, Spike Lee and Hal Hartly.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a high school throw-out.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was a dummy in school.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020