Ben Stiller Quotes

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

In high school, I was a poor student.

I wasn't good at school.

I was never really good in school.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

I sucked in school.

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

I think I was about 16 when I first figured I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be a fighter pilot before that, but then I thought I don't want to kill people so that ruled that out.

I went to seven colleges. I was a professional transfer student. I had to drop out 'cause I couldn't see out the back window.

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

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

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

I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.

I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

I was really rubbish at school.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail the second grade and be held back.

I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.

Had acting not taken off, I would've been glad to become a teacher.

I never thrived in high school.

At school, I had to work really hard to get a D in maths. And I wasn't slacking off; I actually did work quite hard.

I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.

My first love was always direction; I had worked hard as a film-maker but not as an actor.

I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.