quotes about High School
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I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.
-- Aaron TveitSource : "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Aaron Tveit". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. July 24, 2010.
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I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!
-- Aaron TveitSource : "Broadway Favorite Aaron Tveit Tackles the Small Screen With ‘Graceland’". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2013.
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Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.
-- Adam Carolla -
I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.
-- Adam Lambert -
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
-- Adam Levine -
When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.
-- Alan Jackson -
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Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
-- Anne Bancroft -
I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.
-- Barry Zito -
Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
-- Beau Bridges -
I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.
-- Bella Heathcote -
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In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.
-- Beth Kephart -
High School is the place where poetry goes to die.
-- Billy Collins -
When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.
-- Billy Collins -
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I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
-- Bobby Flay -
I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.
-- Bruce Boxleitner -
I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.
-- Cameron MonaghanSource : "Cameron Monaghan's Dream Prom Night!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 13, 2011.
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I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.
-- Camilla Belle -
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
-- Carl Lewis -
When I say something like "back when I was in high school," I usually mean: "back when I was supposed to be in high school.
-- Carlton Mellick III -
I guess I was popular in high school.
-- Cecily von Ziegesar -
I hated high school. I didn't have any friends because I didn't fit in.
-- Chad Michael Murray -
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While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.
-- Charlene Tilton -
There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate
-- Chi McBride -
There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.
-- Chris Colfer -
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
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When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.
-- Darius Rucker -
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.
-- David LaChapelleSource : Source: www.tristateindie.com
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High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
-- David Ogden Stiers -
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I never dated much in high school or college.
-- David Spade -
I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.
-- David Talbot -
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I havent really eaten breakfast since high school.
-- Domo GenesisSource : Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 15, 2012.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
-- Eberhard Weber -
What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences in the place.
-- Edgar FriedenbergSource : Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1965). “Coming of Age in America”
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In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.
-- Eli Broad -
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I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.
-- Ellen Bass -
I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.
-- Ezra Miller -
High School is the penalty for transgressions yet to be specified.
-- Frank PortmanSource : Frank Portman (2008). “King Dork”, p.15, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.
-- Gerard Way -
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I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then.
-- Girl Talk -
I went to Samuel Ayer High School, which is now Milpitas High School.
-- Grant ShowSource : "Grant Show stars in 'Accidentally on Purpose'". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. October 24, 2009.
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In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.
-- Gus Van Sant -
What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?
-- Hal ClementSource : Hal Clement (2002). “Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories”, p.125, Macmillan
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I had a serious boyfriend in high school, but we would take breaks in between. You shouldn't always have a boyfriend!
-- Heather Morris -
When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.
-- Hunter Hayes -
I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'
-- Jamie Lee Curtis -
I had died and woken up in High School Musical
-- Jamie McGuireSource : Jamie McGuire (2012). “Beautiful Disaster: A Novel”, p.165, Simon and Schuster
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In every high school, there is a clique.
-- Janel ParrishSource : "Skyler Shaye and Janel Parrish Worship at the Alter of the Bratz!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 24, 2007.
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Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.
-- Jared Leto -
I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.
-- Jason Mraz -
A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.
-- Jena Malone -
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High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.
-- Jenna UshkowitzSource : "When I Was 17: Jenna Ushkowitz". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 17, 2012.
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So basically, I graduated high school a semester early.
-- Jessica Szohr -
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Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.
-- Joan Allen -
I swam a little bit in high school but I wasn't a jock.
-- Joel Silver -
When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.
-- John Scalzi -
I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.
-- Josh Hutcherson -
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The girls in high school who watched 90210? I was watching Seinfeld.
-- Josh SchwartzSource : "The making of a golden boy" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2005.
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Baby, high school's over. High school's never over..
-- Karen Joy Fowler -
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I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.
-- Katey Sagal -
High school popularity is so fickle.
-- Kathy ReichsSource : Kathy Reichs (2013). “Code: A Virals Novel”, p.36, Penguin
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My whole thing is that often times when teenagers are about 18, 19, 20, 21, they get this mentality that they have to be old, they have to appear older, they can no longer be seen as a high schooler, they need to be seen as mid-20s all of a sudden even though they're only, like, 20. I'm the opposite of that.
-- Kay Panabaker -
In high school, I was the biggest procrastinator in the world.
-- Kristin Kreuk -
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High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
I don't have a lot of friends; most of the friends I have, I've had since high school.
-- Lauren London -
I went through a lot of battles in high school.
-- LeBron James -
I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
-- Levon Helm -
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High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.
-- Marguerite Moreau -
In high school, I was a total jock/extracurricular nerd/just plain nerd.
-- Mark Feuerstein -
I dated the same girl all through high school.
-- Mark Hoppus -
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Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.
-- Martin Mull -
Kelly Kelly really graduated from high school?
-- Matt Striker -
I dont think anyone can get away from high school unscathed.
-- Matthew Morrison -
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A lot of stuff I wear I've had since high school.
-- Mayim Bialik -
I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.
-- Michael Rady -
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 -
I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.
-- Mo Rocca -
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I was your quintessential nerd in high school.
-- Neal Boortz -
This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
-- Pat Boone -
When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.
-- Paul Feig -
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I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.
-- Philip Emeagwali -
I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
-- Rachel Dratch -
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In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.
-- Rashida Jones -
In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
-- Sam Trammell -
It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an ***** to your parents.
-- Sara Zarr -
Ever hear that expression, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times"? That's what high school was like for me. Both of those - all the time.
-- Sarah Kay -