1,529 quotes
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
Mark Ruffalo
Actor · American · b. 1967
If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
Syd Barrett
Musician · English · 1946 – 2006
I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
Bobby Knight
Coach · American · b. 1940
I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.
Warren Zevon
Musician · American · 1947 – 2003
Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.
Chi McBride
Actor · American · b. 1961
So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Musician · American · b. 1942
Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.
Matthew Lesko
Entertainer · American
I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.
Mathias Rust
Celebrity · German
If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now.
Kel Mitchell
Actor · American · b. 1978
And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
Warren Beatty
Actor · American · b. 1937
The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
Zhang Ziyi
Actress · Chinese · b. 1979
I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.
Christine Lavin
Musician · American · b. 1952
The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.
Andrew Shue
Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.
Krist Novoselic
Musician · American · b. 1965
American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.
John Philip Sousa
Musician · American · 1854 – 1932
But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.
Buddy Rich
Musician · American · 1917 – 1987
I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.
Nell Carter
Actress · American · 1948 – 2003
You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.
Jay Mohr
Actor · American · b. 1970
There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
Mackenzie Astin
Actor · American · b. 1973
I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
Nancy Cartwright
Actress · American · b. 1957
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor · Austrian · b. 1947
Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.
Clea Duvall
Actress · American · b. 1977
If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
Oscar Hammerstein II
Musician · American · 1895 – 1960
I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.
Dakota Fanning
Actress · American · b. 1994
I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.
Brad Garrett
Actor · American · b. 1960
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
George Balanchine
Dancer · Russian · 1904 – 1983
I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
Julia Roberts
Actress · American · b. 1967
I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women.
Andie MacDowell
Actress · American · b. 1958
I didn't fancy any of my teachers.
Katie Price
Model · english · b. 1978
I learned life from some good teachers.
Eddie Murray
Athlete · American · b. 1956
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
Betty Buckley
Actress · American · b. 1947
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Katharine Hepburn
Actress · American · 1907 – 2003
A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
Jacqueline Bisset
Actress · English · b. 1944
Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.
Julius Erving
Athlete · American · b. 1950
I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.
Diane Cilento
Actress · Australian · b. 1933
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal
Actress · American · b. 1926
No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
Renee Fleming
Musician · American · b. 1957
You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.
Jennifer Lopez
Musician · b. 1970
In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
Chuck Norris
Actor · American · b. 1940
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vernon Law
Athlete · American · b. 1930
I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.
Judy Collins
Musician · American · b. 1939
If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.
James Collins
Athlete · b. 1973
I feel really good in the teacher role.
Jimmy Chamberlin
Musician · American · b. 1964
There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.
Jill Scott
Musician · American · b. 1972
I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.
Kanye West
Musician · American · b. 1977
Everybody's a teacher if you listen.
Doris Roberts
Actress · American · b. 1930
America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.
Anton Seidl
Celebrity · Hungarian · 1850 – 1898
So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.
Margaret Whiting
Musician · American · b. 1924