- Memory
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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
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But when I went to high school, I was undersized. I didn't grow. I was behind the whole puberty cycle. I didn't like high school.
- Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know what's going to happen next.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of my first year, I realized I wanted to do more drama, so I actually started an extracurricular course outside of university. So I was at school all day writing, and in the evenings I'd go to drama school. So it was nonstop.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to get called Lady Penelope at school because the other kids thought I spoke nicely.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.
- Orange
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn't fit in, and it was pretty lonely.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can't wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into the next dimension!
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in 'West Side Story' when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid, and I just, like, forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved 'West Side Story' so much, and I somehow managed to get the role.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hated high school and got to college and realized they didn't care if I showed up because I'd already paid. So I decided, 'I'm going to turn this around.' And I did: I got straight A's and was named 'outstanding senior.'
- Catholic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a Catholic girls' school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020