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I wasnt originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it. – Kevin Richardson

Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teachers diploma. – Sarah Sutton

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the 50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change! – Thom Gunn

The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesnt matter if youre an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist – you cant really help it when you have feelings for someone. – Jessica Szohr

I wasnt a very good teacher. – Amos Lee

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I cant say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies. – Richard Dreyfuss

If I wasnt an actor, Id be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class. – Richard Dreyfuss

I wasnt a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called creative movement. The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, Now go dance. So for me, dance has always been about self-expression. – Carrie Ann Inaba

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically Im a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with – since 1995 – is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert. – Betty Buckley

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, The voice follows… the voice follows everything about you… who you are. – Betty Buckley

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. Its been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and youll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak. – Dave Winfield

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then Ive thought everyone is a teacher. – Bill Moyers

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sisters lessons. – Marvin Hamlisch

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, thats what is unique about them. – Robert Sternberg

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? Its not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher. – Ken Wilber

I had an art teacher whos the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. Thats where she had gone and kept raving over their art department. – Sela Ward

When I was writing The Abstinence Teacher, I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture. – Tom Perrotta

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things Ive ever done. – John Krasinski

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I dont say that to brag, I just want to be an example. – Big Sean

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and Id have like one teacher, which was really bad. – Devon Sawa