I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister’s lessons.

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

I took Spanish in high school and I didn’t do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.

I had a great movement teacher – he showed me how to walk so I wasn’t becoming like a cartoon.

If I wasn’t an actor, I’d be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.