I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.
— Jim Brown
Grateful High School Junior quotations
I didn't figure out the makeup or cute hair or clothes until oh, maybe my junior year of high school.
You can think of Hollywood as high school.
TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.
I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school.
Music was one of my favorite things in school.
My mom and I have always been really close.
She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.
Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.
I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.
Most of the time I liked school and got good grades.
In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.
It occurred to me in my junior year of high school.
I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.
What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.
The disconnect between what's going on in schools and what's allowed to be shown in movies has gotten really bad because girls in junior high are having oral sex and getting bracelets for it, and in movies everybody's got to be 30 years old to have sex. It's very bizarre.
Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.
I got into acting my junior year of high school.
We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'
My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.
When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things.
I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.
If there is hell, it was modeled after junior high school.
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college.
I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.
I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns.
I have to say I've worked very few days of my life.
I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.
I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.
I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.
I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone.
In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.
I've been thinking of humorous things since I was.
.. I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.
I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.
I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in
Take away the Big Bang and what has God done? Burned a bush and got a girl pregnant. Great, he's a high school junior.
We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes.
I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.
The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.
My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.
On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.