Quotes About School

I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.

I went to drama school at New York University.

I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was the norm - so I did the same thing.

Drama made me happy. Being on stage made me feel alive. But I did what a lot of people do, and that's follow this path of leaving school and going to university. It was only at university that I realised the only thing that would make me a satisfied man was to do what I loved.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.

I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.

I read 'Backstage' a lot when I first was unleashed into the world from drama school. And what was great about it was that if I was using it or not, it was just nice to know what was happening in my community.

Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.

In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.

I was a bad dater, and up until 8th grade I went to an all boy's school. So, by the time I hit high school I was a bit freaked out by women in general.

Stanford's an amazing, amazing school. It was an extraordinary soccer program.

What other school in the country is top five academically and top five in football? There isn't one - except Stanford.

Working on '2001' was my film school. Stanley Kubrick was my mentor.

Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

I just started singing 'cause I had dropped out of school.

I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics.