Quotes About School

I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.

You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation.

I did direct quite a bit when I was in school, and I directed some television afterwards.

There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls' school in the country near Bath. It was a non-selective school and the right environment for me: academically not particularly pushy.

When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'

I've always been athletic - did the 100 metres and 1500 m at school, cross-country races - and did well in them.

You still need a good balance of what we do away from racing, and I feel like school, for me, has been that balance.

I loved playing in the fields back home and racing with my fellow students on the way to school.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

Given that kids don't play our sport in school means that it takes us a while to get people excited about auto racing. But we are doing the things that need to be done and expanding our reach through digital and social media so we can capture the next generation of Millennial fans.

When I went to school, it was radical just to be involved in anything.

When I moved to Los Angeles to be on the radio, there was an acting school on every corner. You can't be in L.A. and not be into acting.

I can bring Rain with me everywhere I go, but when she's in school, I don't know what I'll do. The longest I've been away from her is three days, and I cried my eyes out. The first day of school will be so hard.

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all.

I wish we could have one big A&M rally - a meeting. I had no hard feelings toward the situation just because, you know, leaving the school and everything, it just wasn't the best fit.

I did athletics when I was at school. I ran the 100 meters but I got beat once so stopped doing it.

I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.

That's really how I got started was doing Shakespeare. When I got out of school, I was lucky enough to meet George Wolfe, who ran The Public Theater.

I ran for president of the student council at my high school in Louisville. And ran against a guy who I thought was better known and little bit better student and managed to win.

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

I loved school. Not sure how much I focused on the education; just had fun and played lacrosse for seven years. It was lucky I had sport, which I was good at, so it didn't matter that I wasn't great on the academic side, or not brilliant at drama. Although I am still bitter about not being in the school choir. Furious, actually.

I was drawn to music from a super early age. At school, my ego co-opted it to some degree and I would use it to gain some sort of social credibility.

From a small age, we used to play a lot of school cricket: 30-35 games in a year in school cricket, then Under-16 games.