School Quotes
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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I don't believe in proving myself, ever. I'm in the school of thought where if someone is a curious person, they can find whatever they want.
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I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
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When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.
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I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.
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I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.
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While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.
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It's not like I grew up playing pranks on people, and I was not that girl in school.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
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After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.
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I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
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I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
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I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the 'hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For real?
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion, but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not.
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In high school, I created a fan group for J.D. Williams, who played Bodie on 'The Wire.' I had the chance to meet him, and he took me to have lunch at IHOP. At that point in my life, I noticed this Internet thing was giving me the chance to check off goals off of my bucket list.
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The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.
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I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while I was there; in fact, I took it personally. With every note I got, I felt like they were telling me I was a bad person.
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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
