Quotes of: Elementary-school Keyword

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

Kurt Vonnegut

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

Lady Gaga

I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.

LL Cool J

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

Louis C. K.

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

Logan Lerman

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

Lilly Pulitzer

If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork.

Lucas Till

I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confirmed, which is a big deal.

Mike Birbiglia

I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.

Monique Coleman

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

Mila Kunis

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

Mike Myers

I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.

Rainn Wilson

I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.

Scott Adsit

We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist.

Sergei Bubka

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

Marlon Wayans

I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so I was an easy target.

Nicole Gale Anderson

I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.

Natasha Bedingfield

To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years.

Noah Feldman

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

Angela Bassett

Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

Amy Chua

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

Alicia Witt