Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Quotes

I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.

I was never really good in school.

I was a horrible student.

My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.

I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn't one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.

I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

I failed every class up until I dropped out freshman year.

First semester I took classes like econ and that kind of stuff, and I was miserable.

I was a terrible student.

I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a bit more fiery in those days. At the time I got kicked out, I knew exactly what I was going to do and didn't even bother to go back for a leaving certificate. Then I was singing in folk clubs around Birmingham and playing jazz in clubs on Sundays.

I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.