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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

Actor · American · b. 1967

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

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