“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.” WayDifferentPlayWantedSchoolOpportunityCreativeAbstractExploringSchool Experience Author:Brie Larson
“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.” WantedSchoolGamesStuffRoomsFootballPaintingWallHigh SchoolFootball GameWeird StuffSchool Experience Author:Brie Larson
“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.” YearsSchoolSixHigh SchoolClassicSix Year OldsSchool Experience Author:Thomas Ian Nicholas
“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.” SchoolMiddleTomorrowHigh SchoolHorribleAwfulMiddle SchoolSchool Experience Author:Zachary Levi
“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.” WellsHardSchoolCasesSickEdgesNervousParisBreakdownFrailNervous BreakdownSchool Experience Author:Jacques Derrida
“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.” PeopleCareSchoolLiteratureStuffCrazySacredInstanceDamnVersesModernismMutantsFree VerseSchool Experience Author:Patrick Nielsen Hayden
“I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.” HomeSchoolHigh SchoolSchooledPromSchool Experience Author:Cameron Monaghan
“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.” FirstsBelievePersonsDifferentSchoolI BelieveCollegeNeededMetsHigh SchoolUniversityI Believe InTheatreRanDepartmentBelieve In YouChanging Your LifeAmazing ThingsFirst PersonLarryNycUnorthodoxI Believe In YouNeeded SomeoneSchool Experience Author:Taylor Schilling
“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.” StoriesSchoolWishHappenedMinesHigh SchoolSchool Experience Author:Sarah Dessen
“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.” PeopleKindSchoolBeautifulFilmInterestingOppositesPatternsSentencesNot SureThemeFilm SchoolSchool Experience Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“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.” MenSchoolGuyLeftIssuesHigh SchoolLoved OnesVoidPopularitySchool Experience Author:Jonah Hill
“I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.” HomeSchoolHigh SchoolSchooledSchool Experience Author:Josh Hutcherson
“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.” IfsThinkingSchoolHigh SchoolTestsPromSchool Experience Author:Neal H. Moritz
“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.” PeopleLooksIdeasSchoolPartyWalkingHigh SchoolMy FriendsMeetingsStrangerDinnerNo IdeaSatHanging OutClosestGatheringVeniceSchool ExperienceBongos Author:Ashley Rickards
“I went to high school with some wonderful people, but my entire high school experience was just waiting to leave.” PeopleSchoolWaitingWonderfulHigh SchoolSchool Experience Author:Dana Gould
“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.” KnowsPlaySchoolHappenedSceneHigh SchoolSchool Experience Author:Sarah Steele
“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.” LooksDifferentSchoolOpinionGrowing UpGrowingHigh SchoolConceptsComplexesCompareThemeTypicalComparing YourselfComparing Yourself To OthersSchool Experience Author:Elle Fanning
“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.” PeopleWantYearsShowsBodyWould BeSchoolGuyThreePartyMissingTvsWasteHigh SchoolShotsEcstasyLoserQuartersWasting TimeThree YearsTv ShowsCousinMy CousinMissing OutTutorKegsSchool Experience Author:Jessica Alba
“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.” HomeSchoolJobsHugeAmountHigh SchoolYeahConfusedExhaustingDazedSchool Experience Author:Parker Posey
“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]."” WantFeelsTryingRealKidsSchoolOpportunityGivenFireHigh SchoolUniversalRaisesHolesSchool ExperienceElmo Author:Judd Nelson
“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.” MayMeanHas BeensWholeSchoolFunWonderfulDirectorsSummerIdealsUniversalTomsReally GreatJunkSchool ExperienceSummer School Author:Carrie Fisher
“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.” ArtReasonSchoolMiddleHigh SchoolInsecurityBullyingNegativityBulliedMiddle SchoolSchool Experience Author:Zoey Deutch
“In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.” LifeSchoolGivenEducationTeachLearningTaughtLessonsTestsLife LessonEncouragingMeaningful LifeSelf EducationSchooledWords Of EncouragementLive And LearnTeaching And LearningSchools And EducationSchool EducationTeaching And EducationTeaching EducationSchool LifeInspirational EducationLearning LessonsLesson LearnedStudents And EducationFree EducationInspiring EducationInspirational LearningSchool YearsFirst Day Of SchoolLife TeachesFinishing SchoolThinking About YourselfGiven LifeLearning The Hard WayMotivational EducationSchool ExperienceInspirational SchoolLife Teaching Author:Tom Bodett
“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.” ThinkingKindWholeSchoolHigh SchoolExperienceBootsPromAnomaliesSchool Experience Author:Alicia Witt
“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.” WritingStillsI CanEnoughFeelingsSchoolStrongPagesSmellBiologyPigsStrong EnoughSchool Experience Author:Curtis Sittenfeld