High School Quotes

• A line of Shakespeare, lodged in my head from one of the only classes I ever attended regularly in high school, runs through my mind: “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Truth
  • Doubt
  • Shakespeare

• I think his comfort zone will happen next year when he can go back in the post. Because right now he's trying to do things he didn't do in high school. Obviously, he's a talented player. He shows moments out there of passing ability, post-up ability, rebounding ability -- that he's outstanding.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Up
  • Trying
  • School

• You do not need to go to journalism school if you want to work in the fashion industry. I think high schools condition you to think this way: If you want to be a fashion editor, go to fashion school. If you want to be a writer, you should study journalism. I think that the best school in life is experience.

  

  Eva Chen
  • Writer
  • Journalism
  • Fashion Industry

• My doctor said, 'If you can weigh what you weighed in high school, you'll essentially be healthy and not have Type 2 diabetes.' Well, I'm gonna have Type 2 diabetes, because there is no way I can weigh as much as I did in high school.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Doctor
  • Diabetes
  • Weigh

• I studied voiceover, and I studied acting and I got my first series and my first agent a week out of high school. And it took me about five years of hit-or-miss auditioning and booking on occasion before I could support myself totally as an actor.

  

  Bob Bergen
  • Actor
  • Auditioning
  • Voiceover

• Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Acting

• I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

  

  Tré Cool Green Day
  • Never
  • Successful
  • Rich

• There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Theater
  • High School
  • Reserved

• Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.

  

  Ashlee Nicole "Nikki" DeLoach
  • Years
  • High School
  • Behind

• I knew when I was in high school that I wanted a job where they'd applaud if I showed up.

  

  Cheryl Wheeler
  • Job
  • Applaud
  • Showed Up

• In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • High School
  • Smacked
  • Kicked around

• I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.

  

  Nick Mancuso
  • Professional
  • Actor
  • High School

• I'm timeless, I got that Dickensian, London street-urchin look in high school. I'll never be in style, but I'll always be different.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Style
  • High School
  • Timeless

• I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Job
  • Working
  • Truck

• We didn't leave home until we graduated high school, but when we did, we genuinely left. We went out into the world with 50 bucks, backpacks, and acoustic guitars.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • High School
  • Guitars
  • Graduated

• When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not knowing if this little girl from small town Canada could possibly make it with these highly trained London dancers.

  

  Catherine Mary Stewart
  • Dance
  • Scared
  • London

• I went to Willoughby Girls High, I finished my high school certificate and then I did shorthand and typing the next year. Then started travelling and never used it since.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • High School
  • Travelling
  • Certificate

• When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Cool
  • Student
  • Hang Out

• That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years -- in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Years
  • High School
  • Cramped

• I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • School
  • High
  • Hero

• My first passion was running: I excelled at that starting till the end of the high school. I pretty much cover about 20 miles a night on stage. I basically rechanneled all the athleticism and adrenaline, and everything that's exciting about sports into music. That was my secret weapon, because in Ukrainian punk rock scene - where everything was very gloomy - being athletic was not cool. I didn't publicize anything about my sport past, but I rolled in onstage with a background nobody had, and I became instantly recognized as the wildest performer in the punk-rock scene.

  

  Eugene Hutz
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Stage

• I was a wrestler in high school, and that was a pretty big part of my life.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • My Life
  • High School
  • Wrestler

• When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Wonder
  • Learned
  • High School

• In high school, they would foul the heck out of me and there was never a call. But you have to play through it and hopefully one day earn the respect of the refs.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Respect
  • Play
  • High School

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