I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of ...
I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.
My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.
I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and...
You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.
I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tri...
Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.
My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.
I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it o...
I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.
The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone.
I was 12. Our ,teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.
I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
All I wanted was to be a university teacher.
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A!
I'm glad I was a teacher.
