I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.
— Patricia Marx
When I first started my acting career, I only knew what my acting teacher taught me. When a director gave me an impromptu direction, I didn't know what he wanted me to do, and I wanted to escape from the place.
— Park Hyung-sik
My wife used to work as a teacher and support me, and now I can do something for her, which is very satisfying for me.
— Pankaj Tripathi
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
— P. J. O'Rourke
If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
— Oscar Hammerstein II
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
— Olivia De Havilland
I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.
— Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
I was chastised for writing several obituaries for Malcolm X, exploring different aspects of his writing. One teacher in particular told me, didn't I think I was beating a dead horse? and dismissively threw my paper on my desk.
— Ntozake Shange
I'm pretty much using media all day because my school is online. It's sort of like homeschooling but also like going to real school - you log in and do all your work and email it to the teacher, and we have a teacher who oversees us on set.
— Nolan Gould
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
— Noam Chomsky
I draw inspiration from everything I've seen and been through. My life has been my biggest teacher.
— Nithya Menen
My grandmother bought me a set of Encyclopedia Britannica's when I was little, and I remember sitting on the floor reading through these just dreaming of all the possibilities. My mind would always go toward me becoming a nurse or a teacher because, even back then, I knew I wanted to do my part to make the world a richer place.
— Nina Turner
I do remember a teacher telling me when I was about ten that I was really good at acting. I was so proud, even though I am sure he said that to all of us in the class.
— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.
— Niki Taylor
You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.
— Nicolas Cage
I used to be a teacher, and I know how difficult it is to strike a balance between focused conversation and an atmosphere which prevents creativity and thought.
— Nick Hornby
As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
— Niall Ferguson
The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.
— Patch Adams
Park Bo Young was like a teacher to me. Personally, we were good friends, but at the same time, I admired her acting and learned a lot from her.
The director's job is like a teacher's, and I feel a teacher should not have any doubts about the subject.
— P. Vasu
My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
— Owain Yeoman
I had a teacher at school who told me to take up the harp.
— Orianthi
I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
— Oliver Tambo
Throughout my life, ever since I played for Clausenengen back home, instead of listening to the teacher at school, I was writing down all the chances I missed in a book thinking 'I should have done this.' Scoring goals was all I thought about.
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
— Norman MacCaig
I guess standup is really painting pictures with words - especially for me, as I describe quite fantastical, visual things. My art teacher, Dexter Dalwood, always seemed to think they were linked. We bonded over our love of Vic Reeves.
— Noel Fielding
My father was a writer and an acting teacher.
— Noah Hathaway
Had acting not taken off, I would've been glad to become a teacher.
I have to be composed; I have to be poised. I have to remember what my first piano teacher told me: 'You do not touch that piano until you are ready and until they are ready to listen to you.
— Nina Simone
My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
— Niklaus Wirth
I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.
— Nicole Gale Anderson
I always wanted to be a teacher.
— Nicky Hilton
A teacher asked me if I'd audition for a play, and I ended up playing the pirate Red Dog in a production of 'Treasure Island.' And that's where it started, and I really felt part of something special, but I still didn't think about it as something I wanted to do. I was just having fun.
— Nick Gehlfuss
There was only one elective at my college for acting, but thank God for that elective because we had a great teacher who introduced me to the Meisner technique for acting. Once I read that book, I said, 'Wow, if I could do that and have that honest moment on stage, that would be amazing.'
— Nestor Carbonell
Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
— Pat Boone
It was Sultan Qureshi, the character of 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' which brought success as a baddie, but it were the TC and teacher's roles in 'Masaan' and 'Nil Battey Sannata' that broke the villain's mould and helped me successfully explore the other shades - be it comedy, intense, or serious - surprising the audience all the time.
The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
— Oscar Wilde
At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.
— Omar Dorsey
My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.
— Oliver E. Williamson
In middle school, I had the best math teacher I've ever had, and he was deaf... and I felt inspired by him. I knew from then on that I wanted to be a math teacher.
— Nyle DiMarco
In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.
— Norm MacDonald
I was quite a shy kid, but I was quite funny at school, and I was really into art. In our class, there were two of us who were good at drawing, and my teacher was like, 'He's going to make a wonderful artist one day, and Noel can make everyone laugh.'
I was, like, this tiny little kid that was goofy and would always crack jokes or sit in the back of class and not listen to anything that the teacher was saying.
— Noah Centineo
I was a teacher once.
— Nita Ambani
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
I had a brilliant drama teacher while I was at Roland Park: Ann Mainolfi. But the school was mostly rich in academics. It wasn't like I was prepping myself for a life in acting. There, you prepped yourself to have a stable future. The school's piece de resistance is college prep - it didn't teach you how to audition for a TV show.
— Nicole Ari Parker
If you're a coach, you're a teacher.
— Nick Saban
My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.
— Nick Cave
