School Quotes

We just moved out of L.A. because I didn't want to be raising my girls in the city. They're in public school now and they're in a normal situation. We're sort of settling into that. It's just a choice.

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something I always missed out on, and all my friends got to go and would tell me about it.

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

I was put on a surfboard by a cute boyfriend in high school.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.

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.

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

If you're under 26, you can stay on your parents' plan. You can go back to school or get extra training without fear of a health catastrophe bankrupting your family. Over three million previously uninsured young adults are now on their parents' plans.

I wasn't the most popular kid in school.

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

Girls in my school were always prettier.

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.

There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.

It will never be mistaken for a high school gymnasium or a meeting room in a Midwestern motel.