Academic Difficulties Quotes

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

I was really rubbish at school.

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

I wasn't good at anything very much at school, but I did like drama.

I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.

I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.

My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.

I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.

I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial.

Growing up with dyslexia and struggling in the classroom because of it, I know how infuriating and frustrating it can be to be treated wrongly as though you're of below par intelligence.

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

In high school, I was a poor student.

I went to school like everyone else, but I hated it, and I always had a lot of problems. Even my younger brother Guglielmo is the same way: we can't stay cooped up in a room for hours, listening.

I sucked in school.

I wasn't good at school.

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

I used comedy as a way to combat my dyslexia. I was barely getting by scholastically, so I used a lot of humor.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.