Miles Teller Quotes

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.

The teachers told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I was a bad kid. But I knew I could still hoop.

I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

I was a high-school dropout; I was a loner.

Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'

I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.

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

I know, if I am playing well, I can be as good as anyone, and I want to show people who write you off and forget about you.

My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.

When I was in the 9th grade I was flunking out of high school. And that's why I'm so encouraged by the fact that America is the place where opportunity and American exceptionalism is alive and well.

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.'

Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

There's always going to be someone out there who doesn't like what you do, doesn't like your style, your face. That's part of life. But I feed off that. I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for that. It puts a little fire in the belly, keeps me going so I can prove so many people wrong.

I would stand at the cradle of every colored boy and girl in the land and bid them to awake from their slumber, put on their clothes and shoes, prepare their toilet, eat an early breakfast, throw their satchel of books on their shoulders and hasten to the school house and remain until they have secured a parchment of graduation