James Kent Quotes

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

I was quite nerdy at school. I skipped a year and won a scholarship in chemistry.

C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

I made good grades in school.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.

My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's.

I'm a child of academics.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

When I went to college, I got an engineering degree and a full scholarship.

I graduated college with a 3.5 GPA, when I came into college barely able to get in.

I passed the 11-plus and went up to the senior school, where my two older sisters had already gone. I was in the 'A' stream, but in the third year, they asked me to give up Latin; no one had ever got 7 per cent before.

I was valedictorian of my class until I switched to a neighboring high school, but I maintained the grades and involvement. Switching schools was tough.

I always stayed on top of my schoolwork. I did it because I had to and because I had a strict father. He made sure I did my homework and told me not to mess around in class.

My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you getting all As, if not, why not. You need to do better. So my entire orientation and focus growing up was around doing your best and making sure that you were going to get the best education possible.

I don't make a lot of mistakes, honestly. I'm an A-student, I'm an Ivy Leaguer. I need those things.