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School Quotes

On learning, growing up and finding your own pace.

These quotes cover school in different forms: a childhood spent in Sunday school, being a late bloomer among faster-moving classmates, and skipping formal film training entirely to learn a craft directly. For lighter school-themed content, see our Jokes.

When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to...

Quotes by Om Puri

When I got out of school, I lived the myth of Horatio Alger, and my company was on the cover of 'Fortune' magazine because it processed over ten percent of NASDAQ's daily trading volume. I had achieved what I thought...

Quotes by Omar Amanat

I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.

Quotes by Olivia Munn

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

Quotes by Olivia Wilde

I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.

Quotes by Olivia Wilde

I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing...

Quotes by Olivier Megaton

I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

Quotes by Olivier Theyskens

Arctic Monkeys are actually one of my favourite bands going, which is really weird cos I went to school and college with them.

Quotes by Oliver Sykes

In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.

Quotes by Oliver Tambo

In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my...

Quotes by Olivia Colman

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

Quotes by Olivia Colman

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

Quotes by Olivia Colman

I was rubbish at school.

Quotes by Olivia Colman

My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.

Quotes by Olivia Cooke

I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.

Quotes by Olivia Holt

I think, since I was a kid, I had that independence of being driven and being motivated in whatever I did, whether school work or a sport or even a hobby.

Quotes by Olivia Holt

I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.

Quotes by Oliver Hudson

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

Quotes by Oliver Sacks

In our school, there were lots of bands putting up posters saying 'Come to our gigs'.

Quotes by Oliver Sim

To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.

Quotes by Oliver Sim

Frequently Asked Questions

What different kinds of school are reflected in these quotes?
The quotes touch on several types of schooling - being a "late bloomer" in regular high school, attending Sunday school and Bible readings at church starting in first grade, skipping film school entirely, and studying natural sciences at a Swiss Polytechnical School.
Is there a quote about religious or Sunday school?
Yes: "Once I started first grade, I started going to Emmanuel Baptist Church regularly. I went to Sunday school. We had Bible readings and things like that." For more devotional, school-related content, see Prayers.
Is there a quote about not attending film school?
Yes: "I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected," a wry take on skipping formal film education entirely. For more lighthearted content on this theme, see Jokes.
Is there a quote about being a late bloomer in school?
Yes, one reflects on being a "late bloomer" even back in high school, watching everyone else move ahead while feeling behind - a pattern the speaker says also carried into a filmmaking career.
Is there anything here about advanced or scientific study?
Yes, one references studying toward a diploma in Natural Sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School in Zurich, where early contact with fundamental research began. For lighter, more playful school-themed content, browse Rhymes or Poems.

You can also browse our Poems or Rhymes for younger, more playful school content.