I've always been really ambitious, whatever I do. At school, I always wanted to be the best in the class - no, it wasn't enough to be the best in the class, I'd want to be the best in the country.
I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.
Sometimes, in my world where parents hated one another and school was a battleground, it sucked to be me.
When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.
I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.
A school bell that sounds annoying at 8:00am sounds exciting at 4:00pm ....it is a matter of time , you will get there.
I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.
I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.
I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.
What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years.
I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school.
Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
The only working model of socialism I have ever seen is in an elementary school classroom.
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
School education will grant you a job. Development in life will grant you wise brain.
I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
I always went to school, and when I was working, I had tutoring every day. I still had a childhood.
When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twofold: to entertain and to educate.
