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“There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.”

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Author:Camilla Luddington

“I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.”

Giving Trying Wells Enough School Form Left Easy Break Support Trouble High School Twenties Forgotten Our Family Credence

Author:Julia Leigh

“I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school.”

School Born High School Moved Valleys Elementary School Antonio San Antonio

Author:Katie Leclerc

“I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.”

Way Kind School Grows Growing Up Grew Months Grew Up High School Shooting Odd Maturity

Author:Logan Lerman

“I got into acting in high school mainly because I wasn't doing anything else and started to hit a few bumps in the road. And there was a conference with my parents who said either you find something to do with your time or we will. And so, I don't know why I thought this was the thing to do, but I went to audition for the school play.”

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Author:Matt Letscher

“My awkward stage extended well into high school.”

Wells School Stage High School Awkward

Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.”

Years Enough Body School High School Seven Fishes Smell Your Body Restaurants Seven Years Sushi Japanese Food Fishy

Author:Masaharu Morimoto

“I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.”

Trying Firsts Home School Remember Water Practice Television High School Cool Things Blown Away Happy Day Polo Water Polo

Author:Ted McGinley

“Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.”

Wells School House Party Rocks College Band High School Touring Rock Bands Togas

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.”

School Black College High School Contact Boxing Belts Karate Black Belt

Author:Dean Norris

“I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.”

School America Born College High School Moved Finished Nigeria Indiana

Author:Dayo Okeniyi

“I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.”

Years Firsts Hard School High School Shy Many Friends

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.”

School Acting High School Yeah

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.”

School Girl High School Shirts Pants School Girl

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.”

School Teacher Drama High School Theater

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.”

Made Important School Literature Interesting Class Environment Teacher High School Enjoyed Interaction English Literature

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.”

Ifs Knows World Littles Persons Ends School Girl Party High School Opposites Adolescence

Author:Jerry O'Connell

“I was a complete outsider in high school.”

School High School Outsiders

Author:Karen O

“I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.”

Made School Decision Acting High School After High School Life After High School

Author:Mary-Kate Olsen

“I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.”

Bigs Light School Used Night Bits Football Grew Grew Up High School Track Texas Friday Friday Night Antonio Night Light San Antonio Friday Night Lights

Author:Norah O'Donnell

“I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.”

Men Running School Young Football High School Track Work Out Broke Ran Young Man Fragile

Author:Danny Pudi

“Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.”

School Education High School Hollywood Finished Tattoo

Author:Tom Petty

“No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.”

States Problem School Politics Wish Attention High School Paid Communicate Latin No Problem Latin America Head Of State Latin American

Author:Dan Quayle

“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.”

Wanted School Games Stuff Rooms Football Painting Wall High School Football Game Weird Stuff School Experience

Author:Brie Larson

“The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.”

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Author:Jim Leach

“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.”

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Author:Thomas Ian Nicholas

“I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.”

Years Kind Play School Left High School Gas Hockey Dropouts School Dropout High School Dropout Pumping Gas

Author:Adam Oates

“I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.”

Play School Drama High School Performing Department

Author:Missi Pyle

“I didn't even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn't have Internet when I was in middle school and beginning of high school. I didn't think to be looking things up and looking at message boards saying whether people liked me or not.”

People Thinking School Middle Internet Computer Messages High School Boards Middle School

Author:Sara Paxton

“I was never really unpopular in high school.”

School High School

Author:Tyler Posey

“I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.”

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Author:Tyler Posey

“Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.”

Knows Years Stories School Left Car High School Yeah Moved Typical Idaho

Author:Aaron Paul

“On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.”

Reality School Havens Dad High School Performances My Dad Juniors Back To Reality

Author:Candace Parker

“When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.”

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Author:Francine Pascal

“In every high school, there is a clique.”

School High School Clique

Author:Janel Parrish

“I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.”

School Acting Half Crazy Football Grew Grew Up High School Towns Texas Small Town

Author:Jesse Plemons

“Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.”

School Mother Father Company High School Firm Secretary Going To Work Printing Salesman Merchants Clerks Wool Stationary Bookkeepers

Author:Martin Lewis Perl

“I hated high school and got to college and realized they didn't care if I showed up because I'd already paid. So I decided, 'I'm going to turn this around.' And I did: I got straight A's and was named 'outstanding senior.”

Ifs Care School Turns College High School Decided Paid Hated Senior Outstanding

Author:Pauley Perrette

“A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.”

Looks Stills School Results Novel Progress Heard Changed High School Hollywood Election Producers Life Changing Screenwriters Drawers Wishbones

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.”

Stories School Lost High School Moved Sentences Lost Love

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.”

Writing Real Stories School Culture Team Football Bears Involved High School Magazines Football Team Pariahs

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.”

School Jobs Pay Acting High School Bills Fortunate

Author:Amy Ryan

“Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.”

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Author:Chance the Rapper

“By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.”

School Acting Careers High School Favors Forsaken

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.”

Said School Students College High School Journalism Gears

Author:Giuliana Rancic

“As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.”

Thinking Play Kids School Lost Acting Magic Band High School Guitar Puzzles Juniors Junior High High School Junior

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school.”

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Author:Melissa Rauch

“Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.”

Different School Girl Hair High School Blue Accepted Hello Gothic Juniors Junior High Kitties Blue Hair Hello Kitty

Author:Nikki Reed

“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.”

“You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?”

Knows Mean Has Beens Different Care Kids Able School Together College High School Hanging Out Good Friend Who Cares Nerdy Clique

Author:Brandon Sanderson

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