Alan Ladd Quotes

I was a bum at school. I never liked learning, and stupid ideas used to come to mind.

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

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.

When I went to college, I was doing well in school, but I didn't have any drive to study.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

I was really rubbish at school.

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 was a class clown, never got good grades.

My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all?

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

I wasn't good at school.

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

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

I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.

I was never really good in school.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

I sucked in school.

I was terrible at school.

To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.

I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

From age 16 on, I found school boring and failed A-level Physics at my first attempt. This was necessary for university entrance, and so I stayed an extra year to repeat it. This time, I did splendidly and was admitted to Sheffield University, my first choice because of their excellent Chemistry Department.

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

I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't even do my A-levels.