“I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.” KindKidsWantedSchoolOpportunityFeltFiguresToughTough TimesFitting Author:Brie Larson
“Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set.” PeopleWayTryingKindSometimesKidsSchoolFiguresHigh School Author:Luke Wilson
“Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.” TryingSchoolFiguresHugeTheaterMusicalMy FavoriteBack WhenTouchstonesSweeneySweeney Todd Author:Eric McCormack
“Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.” KnowsYearsHumansEndsSchoolWinningAbilityEducationStudyFiguresStudentsPrizeCopies Book:The Art Spirit Source: The Art Spirit
“When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn't going to work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art was going to be.” ArtSchoolCertainFiguresI RealizedGoing To WorkStarting OverJust Do ItArt School Author:Bruce Nauman
“My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.” KindWantedSchoolStuffParentMy OwnFiguresDadLet MeMy DadLecturesDyslexic Author:Georgia May Jagger
“I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.” KnowsChildrenSchoolFoundEasyKnow HowTeacherFiguresPeriodsFitWork OutHandleBoredSarcasticArrogantTypicalGreyPsychologistIrritatingWithdrawingYoungest ChildOver ConfidentVery SarcasticHandle Me Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“It's not my fault Snow didn't have any other options coming out of high school. If going to college gets you a career backup goaltender job, and my route gets you a thousand points and a thousand games, and compare the two contracts, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out whose decision was better.” IfsTwoSchoolJobsGamesDecisionCareersFiguresCollegeThousandHigh SchoolScientistFaultsSnowCompareContractsComing OutRoutesRocketsNhlBackupGoing To College Author:Jeremy Roenick
“Things go wrong for me, all the time, with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old school a brain to be able to figure it out. I'm dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs.” FeelsTryingEnoughAbleSchoolBrainTechnologyStupidFiguresPeriodsProtectFamiliarDumbThumbsOld School Author:Johnny Depp
“Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.” TryingSometimesSchoolVoiceWhiteGrowing UpGrowingFiguresHairExperimentsLatina Author:Monica Raymund
“High school was the first time I ever saw spoken word poetry. The first place I ever performed a poem was at my school, so in some ways it was the nucleus of how it all started. For me I think high school was a period of trying to figure myself out, and poetry was one of the ways I did that, and was a very helpful avenue to try to do that.” ThinkingWayTryingFirstsSchoolSawsFiguresPeriodsHigh SchoolFirst TimeHelpfulAvenuesSpoken WordNucleus Author:Phil Kay
“I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We laughed hard growing up. But being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home, whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three. When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some bad decisions about who I hung out with, I dropped out of high school, got kicked out of the house.” KnowsWellsChildrenMadeHardHomeSchoolYoungThreeHouseParentDecisionGrowing UpGrowingMiddleFiguresGrewFitGrew UpHigh SchoolRaisedSevenDesperateRemarkableLaughedHungBad DecisionMiddle Child Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“Most of us who got into film industry in early 2000s weren't prepared for the constant vigilance that being a celebrity requires, and there's no school for learning how to handle it well or gracefully. It's a hard thing to figure out. A lot of people don't deal with it well because they're either too paranoid or they're doing things they probably shouldn't be doing in public.” PeopleWellsHardSchoolFilmDealsFiguresIndustryConstantPreparedHandleParanoidHard ThingsFilm IndustryVigilance Author:Megan Fox
“I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.” GivingTryingLooksMeanReasonSchoolFiguresGive MeFurnitureIkea Author:Dave Grohl
“When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.” LongSchoolNightStuffFiguresLong TimeSaturdayHarvardSaturday NightSaturday Night LivePre School Author:Bill Hader
“When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Juilliard and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia.” TryingArtSchoolFiguresHigh SchoolDecidedArtisticDramaticAustraliaAcademicAuditionsRoyalAcademyScholarshipInstituteSydneyJuilliard Author:Deborah Kara Unger
“I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.” SchoolUsedOpportunityFigures Author:Christa B. Allen
“I learned my "facts of life" on toilet walls. I'd walk up in school bathrooms and there would be crude drawings and figures engaged in sex. That's how I learned.” FactsWould BeSchoolSexWalksFiguresWallDrawingEngagedBathroomToiletsFacts Of LifeCrude Author:Liam Neeson