• "When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer." - Melvin Burgess Tweet
• "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 Tweet
• "I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time." - Natasha Calis Tweet
• "I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12." - January Jones Tweet
• "My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent." - Miles Teller Tweet
• "I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character." - Robert Duvall Tweet
• "A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations." - Patricia Neal Tweet
• "They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher." - Louis Farrakhan Tweet
• "Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching." - Baltasar Gracian Tweet
• "But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play." - Buddy Rich Tweet