Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

I was a bum at school. I never liked learning, and stupid ideas used to come to mind.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

When I went to college, I was doing well in school, but I didn't have any drive to study.

In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

I was doing good in school, but I didn't want to do school anymore.

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

I was a disinterested student.

I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.

I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.

I was a good student, but I was the biggest procrastinator.

I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.

School and I never seemed to walk hand in hand.

I have never done any homework even when I was a child!

I did hardly any academic work. I learnt a fair amount, though.

I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.

I was really not into school. Everything was distracting to me. I would have a beat in my head or a song. I was always not paying attention, just daydreaming.

Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.

I only complained in school, as I did not like studying.