Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

I think everybody should go to high school. It's horrible, and it unites you with other people.

I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.

I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so I was an easy target.

In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.

As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like Harry Potter without the magic. Sometimes we went into town, and if we were caught chewing gum in our uniform, members of the public would take down our names and report us to the school.

As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate.

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm, and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.

I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

In high school, I was not as much of a grade-follower. I kind of enjoyed more of the social aspect of high school.

For me, high school was the one place where I knew my friends were gonna be, so I was there. I didn't like it, I wasn't involved in things, and they didn't teach me anything that I needed to know. But my mom said I had to go, and so I went.

High school sucks! It's hard.

I was raised by a single mother, and she felt the Japanese education system, albeit wonderful, keeps you in a certain range. You have to be better than this level but below this level.