In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.
Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star...
Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.
They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.
The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.'
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.
In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.
In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.
My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
I'm an actor. I was trained by Stella Adler, one of the greatest teachers of the world. I was 19 years old, and she frightened me to death. I was her houseboy for a while.
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.
The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relati...
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.
To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own.
A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
