School Experience Quotes:

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

- Tom Bodett

topic: Life, School, Lessons, Live And Learn, Inspirational Learning

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Learning, School, Experience, School Experience, Good School

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: School, Thinking, Experience, School Experience

Tom Hanks was really great [the 'Burbs']. The director, Joe Dante, was wonderful. We filmed it here during the summer, every day at Universal. Even the food was good - I mean it was junk but it was really good. The whole thing was like some ideal summer-school experience. It may not have been the best movie ever, but it was certainly the most fun.

- Carrie Fisher

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Summer, Fun, School, Summer School, School Experience

It's more like the inner workings of John Bender. He feels like he's been given a short shrift, he's not been provided the opportunities that maybe these other kids have. So he feels like he begins in a hole. And instead of trying to raise himself up, he wants to bring all of them down. That's a dynamic that's pretty universal. And so that was the real foothold on that. It wasn't like, "Oh, my high school experience is like John Bender's [in St. Elmo's Fire]."

- Judd Nelson

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Real, School, Kids, Elmo, School Experience

With Dazed and Confused I got the high school experience I didn't get to have. So you do create families and homes. You're projecting and it's your job. The amount of time and headspace and thought it takes on your psyche is huge. It's exhausting, yeah. And it's exhausting but it's also great.

- Parker Posey

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Jobs, Confused, Home, Dazed, School Experience

I was on a TV show when I was 13, and I had a tutor for high school. Everyone was like "Oh, you're missing out on the high school experience," so I'd go with my cousins to parties where there would be a keg and people doing body shots and playing quarters. I was like, What a waste of time. I didn't want to be doing E [ecstasy] and making out with a guy three years older than me who's a loser.

- Jessica Alba

source: "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

topic: Cousin, Party, School, Tutor, Kegs

Beauty is a complex theme, for sure. We all have a different concept and opinion regarding it, but we all like to look at things that are aesthetically pleasing. I had the typical high school experience, where you question what is beauty, and you're comparing yourself to others, it was just part of growing up.

- Elle Fanning

source: "Interview: Elle Fanning, Nicolas Winding Refn on 'The Neon Demon'". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. June 22, 2016.

topic: Growing Up, School, Typical, Comparing Yourself To Others, Comparing Yourself

My middle school experience was pretty hellish. There was a lot of negativity, a lot of bullying and a lot of insecurity. It was the reason I ended up going to my arts high school because I was pretty bullied.

- Zoey Deutch

source: "Zoey Deutch and Ry Russo-Young discuss Before I Fall". Interview With Marriska Fernandes, www.tribute.ca. March 2, 2017.

topic: Bullying, Art, School, School Experience

My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.

- Zachary Levi

source: "Zoey Deutch and Ry Russo-Young discuss Before I Fall". Interview With Marriska Fernandes, www.tribute.ca. March 2, 2017.

topic: School, Awful, Tomorrow, School Experience

I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience.

- Jonah Hill

source: "Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill". Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 13, 2012.

topic: School, Men, Issues, School Experience

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

topic: Home, School, High School, School Experience

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

- Curtis Sittenfeld

topic: Strong, Writing, School, School Experience

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

- Brie Larson

topic: School, Opportunity, Play, School Experience

I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.

- Brie Larson

topic: Football, Wall, School, Weird Stuff, School Experience

Talk about high school and what we identify with in the play; things that have happened to us and all of our high school experiences that we could bring to this. And to talk about what everyone knows in each specific scene.

- Sarah Steele

topic: School, Play, Scene, School Experience

I went to high school with some wonderful people, but my entire high school experience was just waiting to leave.

- Dana Gould

topic: School, People, Waiting, School Experience

I have no idea what a high school party looks like. I was just with my friend, and we were walking down Venice and there was this gathering of people playing Bongo drums, and so after dinner we sat down with them and played Bongo drums for a while. That's the closest thing I've gotten to a high school experience, meeting strangers and just hanging out with them.

- Ashley Rickards

topic: Party, School, Venice, Bongos, School Experience

I think that everybody, even if they had the best high school experience, there was something about high school. Whether you dropped a pass, or whether you flunked the test, or you didn't go to the prom.

- Neal H. Moritz

topic: School, Thinking, Tests, School Experience

I'll have a sentence in my head that's kind of beautiful and interesting, but I'm not sure why or where it's coming from. So it's kind of funny, because when people point out patterns or themes, it's the exact opposite of my film school experience.

- Don Hertzfeldt

source: "Animator Don Hertzfeldt, Picturing Matchstick Men and You". Interview with Luke Y.Thompson, www.therobotsvoice.com. April 24, 2015.

topic: Beautiful, School, Opposites, Film School, School Experience

All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.

- Sarah Dessen

source: Interview with Stephanie Mooney, www.weheartya.com. June 13, 2013.

topic: School, Wish, Stories, School Experience

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.

- Thomas Ian Nicholas

source: "Exclusive: Thomas Ian Nicholas Talks Fading of the Cries and American Reunion". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 07, 2011.

topic: School, Years, Six, Six Year Olds, School Experience

I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.

- Cameron Monaghan

source: "Cameron Monaghan's Dream Prom Night!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 13, 2011.

topic: Home, School, High School, School Experience

So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don't like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.

- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

source: "Oh No Lev Grossman No". nielsenhayden.com. August 30, 2009.

topic: Crazy, School, People, Free Verse, School Experience

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

- Jacques Derrida

topic: School, Paris, Sick, School Experience

I had an unorthodox high-school experience; I shifted around to different schools. When I got to college and met Larry Sacharow, who ran the theatre department [at Fordham University in NYC], he was the first person to say ‘I believe in you.’ At that point, I just needed someone to say ‘I see you, I get you, let’s go.’ It’s an amazing thing to borrow someone else’s confidence in you; it can change your life.

- Taylor Schilling

topic: Believe, School, College, Nyc, Needed Someone