Me Quotes

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

~ Jack Canfield

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.

~ Arthur Smith

I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.

~ Dawn Steel

Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.

~ Alexander Chee

In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.

~ Sue Townsend

There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

~ Abraham Verghese

I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.

~ Megan Hilty

I told my mom the reason I started working out was because I wanted to break the necks of the people picking on me. I wanted to hurt them. I said I didn't want any teacher to put me down any more.

~ Herschel Walker

During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in upcountry Uganda, were desperate for qualifications, they largely ignored me. Until, that is, I realised that they wanted to hear about other young persons around the world.

~ Simon Hoggart

Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

~ Walter O'brien

I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

~ Alan Sugar

I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaolin kung fu teacher, but he also taught tai chi, Chinese medicine, brush painting - he was adept at all facets of Chinese culture.

~ Daniel Wu

My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.

~ Maddie Ziegler

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.

~ Gary Sinise

I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, 'Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?' But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed.

~ Paul Merton

When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.

~ Alice Oswald

My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.

~ Ada Yonath

I not only couldn't read but often couldn't hear or understand what was being said to me - by the time I'd processed the beginning of a sentence, the teacher was well on her way through a second or third.

~ Philip Schultz

My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.

~ Win Butler

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

~ Josef Albers

My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'

~ Archie Panjabi

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.

~ Kevin Richardson

I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.

~ Sanford I. Weill

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

~ Peggy Lipton

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

~ Alan Shepard

If you ask me about vocal technique, I don't know anything. I could never be a teacher. I just know what my teacher told me: 'Always sing with a full voice. When they tell you, less sound, more piano - no.'

~ Anna Netrebko

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

~ Laura Carmichael

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

~ Andrew Shue

A wonderful acting teacher I love, Josh Pais, has a system I love for being in the moment in acting, but also in life. And one of the things he reminds me of is to take a moment and just be here now.

~ Alysia Reiner

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

~ Richard Dreyfuss

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

~ Ann Bancroft

I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual.

~ Richard Griffiths

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

~ Scott Hamilton

I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.

~ Melissa Rauch

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

~ Ajay Naidu

My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs.

~ Ike Barinholtz

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

~ Doug E. Fresh

I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.

~ Robert Pinsky