“I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interes...” — Bel Powley Quote

“I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.”

“I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.”

“My first professional audition as an actor was when I was about 12 years old, and it was for a children's television show called 'M.I. High,' which I ended up doing for two years.”

“Findlay Prep, Brewster Academy, Oak Hill - those are all basketball powerhouses. I went to an academic powerhouse.”

“The greatest sin of the academic left is that it has become fundamentally aristocratic, writing in bizarre jargon that makes cliches seem abstruse. If you can't explain your ideal to a fairly intelligent 12-year-old, it's probably your own fault.”

“In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.”