- Graduate 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
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
She was just Ma, and I didn't grow up in some kind of acting dynasty: Orson Welles didn't come round and give me a piggyback; Vivien Leigh never read me a bedtime story. It was just my mum and our housekeeper, whom I adored, and after that, it was boarding school.
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not one of those children hanging on Ma's coat-tails following her round sets. I'd go to the theatre after school if she was working, but I didn't even know what an agent was.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum was working in London, so I went to school there until I was 12. But every holiday would be in Scotland, and when I went to boarding school, I'd either be there or Scotland.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020