School Quotes

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be.

I was way into Primus in high school so hanging out with him was a thrill.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.

There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away.

I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.

Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

My school was really small, but I was called the Class Clown!

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square. I saw a kid walk into a restaurant the other day and his belt was below his backside. I would have turned him away.

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

Then to have your baby playing at the school you played at and having him play well is a special treat.

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called "A Banquet for the Moon." It was a weird play.

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.