School Quotes
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We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work.
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I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.
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I always wanted to go to a drama school.
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When I teach classes at the School of Visual Arts,, I'll ask the students, 'How many of you have been to a museum this year?' Nobody raises their hand and I go into a tirade. If you want to do something sharp and innovative, you have to know what went on before.
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I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.
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When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.
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I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I think it was the passion I had for track where you want to do an individual sport and be the best, I think - there's nothing that can replace that.
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I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.
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School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years, and it took passion, strength, and courage from a large group of committed individuals.
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I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school.
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I was big time into Barbie. I also had Wonder Woman Underoos that I really liked. I actually wore them as an outfit to school. As I said, I was a strange child.
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I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.
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I remember, as a young Catholic girl in high school, seeing 'The Exorcist,' and it scared the wits out of me.
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Growing up in New Orleans, I was always the only black kid, or one of two, on the school soccer team. While I was always conscious of this status, what took precedent was my unfettered love of the game.
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Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.
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I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.
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When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky.
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I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.
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When I was in primary school, I was given a five-line script in 'Anansi the Spider Man,' and I decided to just improv and make it my own. For a second, I felt like Kevin Hart because everyone was laughing. I just continued to do it. Why not?
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The reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven't the faintest idea how to do their homework.
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When I was in high school, the drama teacher picked me to play Iago in 'Othello.'
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In high school, I did the 'The Tempest' at Lincoln Center for Joe Papp.
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I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes.
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Of course there is school and sports, but I also like X-Box 360. 'Black Ops 3' is one of my favorites. I also like to play the guitar and piano.
