Ansel Elgort Quotes

I wasn't good at anything very much at school, but I did like drama.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

I wasn't good at school.

I wasn't a troublemaker. I wasn't impertinent. The teachers liked me. But year after year, the comments on my report cards basically came down to a single point, and it was 100% accurate: I seemed to get nothing whatsoever out of all those long hours spent in the classroom.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.

I sucked in school.

I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

I wasn't a good school pupil. I was interested in business.

A really happy kid. I would go off on my own a lot and live in my imagination. When I got my school report back it always said, 'Lisa should try a little harder because she always seems to be in a different world from everyone else.'

Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.

I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.

I had taken a bit of a sabbatical because I was producing and directing films. But acting has always been my passion and it is something that I will continue to do.

I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin.

To be supportive of myself, I have to go with what I want to do. I started acting and I was so mesmerized.

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

It's really hard to go into a creative process and not think, 'I might or might not get nominated for a Tony.'

I like to watch actors while they are acting, how they hold their attention when so many people around are there to distract them. It's difficult.

As much as I love storytelling, I've always been drawn to talent.

I went to school like everyone else, but I hated it, and I always had a lot of problems. Even my younger brother Guglielmo is the same way: we can't stay cooped up in a room for hours, listening.

Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8.

We're always aware of our family being creative, but it wasn't like, 'My uncle is an amazing actor; I want to be like that.'

Being very dyslexic I couldn't even tie my own shoe laces until the age of 21 and I struggled at school.