• "First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song 'Mama Says.'" - Miles Teller Tweet
• "I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work." - Nathan Fillion Tweet
• "I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial." - Yo-Yo Ma Tweet
• "I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character." - Vin Diesel Tweet
• "Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves." - Rush Limbaugh Tweet
• "I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else." - Haruki Murakami Tweet
• "The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'" - Chris Pratt Tweet
• "To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot." - Joseph Conrad Tweet
• "I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me." - Sanford I. Weill Tweet
• "My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites." - Kristin Bauer van Straten Tweet