Chris Toumazou Quotes

I was a dummy in school.

I didn't finish college, and I was very sad about that because I don't think I gave myself a chance to learn, to prove to myself that I could learn.

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This was not an easy thing to do. My mates did the simple thing in the first place and mainly passed with honours and went on to have remarkably successful lives.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.

I need good grades because I want to go on to do A-Levels. I'm just not sure yet about whether I will go to university, because I really want to see what happens with the acting.

What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.

I never wanted to go to college in the state of Washington because I was so embarrassed and ashamed of my family life. I wanted to run. That's what always what I do, I run. I run as far away as I can.

I let the American people down.

I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

I get really very upset when I'm voted out, and I feel very disappointed.

I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was so ashamed I almost got up and left, but somehow I knew inside that if I ran away from this, I would hate myself forever.

I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

My behavior is humiliating.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest hour and a half.

I was ashamed to call myself a Republican during that period.