Ridley Scott Quotes

In school, I was an underachiever.

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 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 sucked in school.

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

I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.

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

I was not a great student.

I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent.

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

I was at the foot of my class.

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?

School reports were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn't try very hard.

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in other classes. In the second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. When I was in school, it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned, I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living up to my potential.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

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

I wasn't good at school.

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 was a dummy in school.

I was never really good in school.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

I was a horrible student.

I was terrible at school.

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