Michelle Gomez Quotes

I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living - which, of course, it isn't.

I became an actress because I'm lazy. I wouldn't apply myself at school.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.

I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or going the acting route. I chose acting, figuring I could always do the music on my own.

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.

My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

I feel like I came to acting late in a way.

I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

You don't have to go out and party every night. You can act because it's your dream.

For 'Spartacus,' we've committed 100 percent of our production time to creating great scenes. So all the training I do is on my own time. And that's pretty limited.

I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.

Wanting to be better as an actor, model, and person in general motivates me to push myself.

I try to be the best version of me that I can be, whether it's acting or on a personal level.

People feel that I have overachieved, but I feel that, myself, that I work tremendously hard in the gym. I feel almost I have underachieved a little bit.

Even before IIT, I always had an inclination to do something, even when I was in school.

They let me do my diploma from home, but I always knew I was destined to do something creative, so I didn't care.

I didn't finish my A-levels so there was always a part of me that wanted to be taken seriously.