Stacey Dooley Quotes

I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn't getting anything out of my investment in the school.

I did drop out of school.

I dropped out of school.

I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system... The longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.

I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.

I left high school very early. I was 17. So I guess it wasn't that early, but I did not get a high school education.

Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.

I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

School's not for everyone, but I'm not telling people to leave school.

I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.

I got a GED based on Catholic school seventh-grade education, really. I didn't make it that far.

I just started singing 'cause I had dropped out of school.

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.