After high school, I drove out to L.A. with a friend of mine who had just graduated also, and I started auditioning. I got an agent, but it was all ‘Saved By the Bell’ auditions. – Casey Affleck
High School is like a spork: it’s a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it’s just plain useless. – John Mayer
In high school I had B’s and C’s, not too many A’s, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to. – Barry Marshall
Sometimes we think videogames are just games for kids, and then once they get out of grammar school or high school, they never play again, but that’s when they really start playing. – John Madden
The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study. – Ahmed Zewail
People tend to think that because I’m a performer and I don’t go to a regular high school that I haven’t personally been affected by bullies. But it’s actually quite the contrary. – Ariana Grande
I developed a prejudice in high school that it was all going to be boring. That kind of teenage, why-do-I-have-to-read-these-goddamn-classics feeling. And then you discover that the classics are classics because they’re lively. They don’t stick around because they’re boring. If they’re boring, they go away. – Aimee Bender
I was a really big R.E.M. fan when I was like, in my freshman year of high school. I was a huge R.E.M. fan. – Corin Tucker
High school wasn’t so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered. – Beth Ditto
As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th. – Bo Jackson
By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions – and that happened in my school too. – Annette Bening
I think if you’re a ‘tiger parent’ early on, you don’t need to be a ‘helicopter parent’ in high school. – Amy Chua
When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there. – Abbi Jacobson
I went to a public high school with a magnet program for law and psychology. But right before my junior year, I decided that I wanted to leave and become an actress, so I graduated early and moved out to L.A. – Ashley Greene
Well, I’ve never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses. – Alessandro Nivola
I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school. – Bebe Rexha
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait. – A. Whitney Brown
I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn’t make a living doing it. You don’t have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn’t want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines. – Adam Driver
My high school girlfriend would ask if I finally learned how to unbutton the back of a sweater! – Breckin Meyer
Our house was like a hotel. It was a loony-tunes household. If you got arrested in high school, everyone knew: ‘Call Mrs. Evans; she’ll bail you out.’ – Chris Evans
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class. – Beth Henley
You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there’s not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin. – Alexander Wang
Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it’s going to be one of those really silly movies and that’s how it got made. – Barry Levinson
When I was in high school, I didn’t feel like I had to pile on the APs in order to look good to colleges. High-achieving classmates didn’t use private tutors. – Alexandra Robbins