Academic Quote by Rene Redzepi

I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be…

— Anonymous

I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.

— Wolfgang Puck

I left school at 15, didn't pick up my GCSEs, didn't do A-levels, didn't go to uni.

— Stacey Dooley

I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.

— Tom Douglas

I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study…

— Marie Curie

I started working at a really young age, so I didn't even go to traditional high school.

— Jessica Barden

Learning to cook at school gave me the confidence to experiment in the kitchen when I left home in my late teens - I…

— Jack Monroe

I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that…

— Pierce Brosnan

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been…

— Peter Mayle

It was quite tough, not many opportunities. I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, "As for you young man, you haven't…

— John Ilhan

I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point…

— Claire Danes

I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until…

— Jesse McCartney