School Quotes - Page 420

I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul

I like dark music and I want to wear those goth clothes in school. And I suddenly discovered this whole world of music that I totally loved. The Cure was my favorite band, even though they're not specifically a goth band. I was listening to everything from The Cure to Depeche Mode to Siouxsie and the Banshees and Bauhaus and all of that stuff. It was just this release for me. I was able to channel a lot of my loneliness and my feelings of being misunderstood, and I could go into this world where it was okay to be really eccentric.

At school my nickname is the National Anthem girl.

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.

I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.

The next movie I do is not going to be in school.

I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.

As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?

CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.

I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.

Her parents wanted her to find her own way in life. That’s what they’d said countless times in the past. Of course, they’d been referring to school subjects and college applications and job prospects. Presumably, at no stage did they factor living skeletons and magic underworlds into their considerations. If they had, their advice would probably have been very different.

I went to school on Senior Skip Day.

I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.

The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.

The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.

I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.

I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued just doing abstract stuff all through high school.

I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.

It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got accepted at a French film school that takes six directors a year. Once you're in, you make films under the eye of people in the industry. You grow up in front of their eyes.

Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.

I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.