Madison Pettis Quotes

I've noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did.

Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to set and they'd be waiting and I'd film my thing and then I'd go back to school again.

I hardly went to school.

I always went to school, and when I was working, I had tutoring every day. I still had a childhood.

I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school.

I did 6-7 films as a child. But it was taking a toll on my studies. So I went back to being a full-time student at JB Petit here in Mumbai.

On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at school, and that a child who enters school already discouraged regains his self-confidence through his school and his teacher. This goes hand in hand with the vocation of the educator, for education is possible only with children who look hopefully and joyfully upon the future.

They [teachers] beat it right out of me. Or they beat it into me and educated it out of me. I don't know; that's an interesting question. The Catholic schools required work, so I think that may have been where the work ethic came from, in answer to the question of how my character may have been shaped.

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D.

It's always a problem with television and with films, you always shoot things out of sequence, so you just take your best stab at every moment. You can't really - you'll drive yourself crazy if you dwell on the negative aspects of it or your shortcomings.

If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

I'm at the halfway point of shooting .

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

Now I'm taking some classes, I'm going to school for film, and I think I'm going to end up back in the industry in one capacity or another. I'm not sure where just yet. I kind of stepped away from it for a few years. I thought I was done with it. But I grew up in it. It's such a big part of my life.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools.

The best education in film is to make one

I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.

Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.