If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No. Alan Sugar
I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence. Andrew Shue
I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math. Andrew Shue
I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something. Mike Judge
I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is. Warren Zevon
I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience. Skeet Ulrich
I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York. Judy Collins
I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher. John Madden
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. Marilyn Hacker
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. Marilyn Hacker
I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school. Jennie Garth
Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college. Ellen Ochoa
I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher. Tim Gunn
If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school. Tim Gunn
Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve. Debra Messing
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher. David Coverdale
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. James Franco
I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it. Katarina Witt
Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me. David Guterson