Read 14 of the Best Celebrity Yearbook Quotes
Read 14 of the Best Celebrity Yearbook Quotes
Nicole BrieseSat, June 6, 2026 at 10:00 AM UTC
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Lucy Liuis featured in a high school yearbook photo.; Bruce Willis aged 18 in the High School Yearbook.Credit: Archive PL/Alamy Stock Photo; ARCHIVIO GBB/Alamy Stock Photo
Talk about a celebrity throwback!
Long before they were posing on red carpets and accepting awards, your favorite actors, actresses and musicians were reminiscing about the good old days and dreaming about their futures with their yearbook quotes.
Some, like Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage, took the opportunity to share deep thoughts, while others, like Taylor Schilling, took the whole thing for a joke. "I was like, 'This makes no sense to me, I think it's pretty dumb,' " she recalled.
Others were right on the nose: As Star Wars actor Oscar Isaac proclaimed in his quote, "I'm into the arts."
Keep reading to find out what else your favorite celebrities had to say to commemorate leaving the halls of high school.
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Peter Dinklage
Peter Dinklage attends the 'Roofman' New York Special Screening at the Crosby Street Hotel on September 08, 2025, in New York, New York.Credit: Jason Mendez/Getty
Dinklage shared his senior year quote, which he borrowed from playwright Sam Shepard, during a November 2023 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
"Words are the tools of imagery in motion," he recalled.
Joked Dinklage: "As a senior yearbook quote, it's pretty pretentious. … I could have used, like, Guns N' Roses or something."
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Taylor Schilling
Taylor Schilling attends the Los Angeles premiere of Peacock Original Series 'Poker Face' Season 2 at Hollywood Legion Theater on May 01, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.Credit: Matt Winkelmeyer/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty
Schilling's yearbook quote of "Zap to me and my hippos bubye" may seem nonsensical, but it does have an explanation.
The Orange Is the New Black star told Chris Hardwick that she picked the quote after observing how different cliques in her school interacted, which she found to be a "very complex sort of mating ritual."
"My group in high school was hippos, I guess, I made it up," she said.
Schilling also revealed that she had her dad take her unserious yearbook picture the night before she had to turn it in.
The actress wouldn't change a thing, telling Hardwick, "I think it's kind of amazing, and I will just put a plug out for continuing to be yourself."
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Darren Criss
Darren Criss hosts The 79th Annual Tony Awards Nominations at Sofitel New York on May 05, 2026 in New York City.Credit: Jenny Anderson/Getty
Glee star Darren Criss paid homage to one of the greats with his St. Ignatius College Preparatory quote in 2005: Star Wars' Chewbacca.
His words of wisdom? "AARRHHHHUNNNGH!!!"
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Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields attends Paramount+'s "Dutton Ranch" New York premiere at AMC Lincoln Square 13 on May 12, 2026 in New York City.Credit: John Lamparski/WireImage/Getty
Brooke Shields got not one, not two, but four different quotes in her Dwight-Englewood School yearbook.
She shared wise words from her mother, Teri Shields ("Tomorrow is another day,"), Frank Sinatra ("Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today,") and Shakespeare ("To thine own self be true").
Even Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes' 1982 duet, "Up Where We Belong," got a nod, with Shields noting, "The road is long/There are mountains in our way/But we climb a step every day."
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Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston at the 2025 ELLE Women in Hollywood Celebration held at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills on November 17, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.Credit: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty
Jennifer Aniston's message for the class of 1987 at LaGuardia High School of Music and Art in New York was less of a quote and more of a sweet farewell. "It's been a real experience!" she gushed. "My friends and PA will live in my heart forever. I'll miss you DREA. XO."
According to Aniston, she almost didn't get into the prestigious prep school: "I was a very last-minute get into that school,' " she told Dax Shepard on Armchair Expert in October 2025. "I was a terrible student."
After learning two monologues, an audition sealed the deal. Aniston said, "I came back and then next thing you know, I was accepted."
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Neil Armstrong
Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong is introsduced during the tribute event to the Apollo 11 astronauts celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing on Tuesday, July 21, 2009.Credit: Bill Clark/Roll Call/Getty
Neil Armstrong made his own famous quote after saying "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" upon landing on the moon in 1969, but as a student at Blume High School in Wapakoneta, Ohio, in 1947, he had another: "He thinks, he acts, 'tis done."
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Channing Tatum
Channing Tatum attends the "Josephine" premiere during the 76th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Berlinale Palast on February 20, 2026 in Berlin, Germany.Credit: Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty
Channing Tatum relied on a sporty phrase from football coach Vince Lombardi for his 1998 Tampa Catholic High School yearbook quote.
Under Tatum's picture, it reads, "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the field of battle."
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Carrie Underwood
Carrie Underwood attends the 29th Annual UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation's "Taste For A Cure" honoring George Cheeks at the Fox Studio Lot on May 01, 2026 in Los Angeles, California.Credit: Tommaso Boddi/Getty
Carrie Underwood reminisced on her senior quote in a 2013 Marie Claire interview.
"You were supposed to say what you would be doing in 10 years, and I said, 'I will be rich, famous, and married to a hot guy,' " she recalled. "I guess I should have added a few more things."
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Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone attends the Paramount+ UK Launch on June 20, 2022 in London, England.Credit: Karwai Tang/WireImage/Getty
A 1966 photo from Sylvester Stallone's American College of Switzerland yearbook, which sold for $6,500 at Julien's Auctions, revealed a lot about the actor, including his nickname of Studley and his participation in his school's drama club.
He presumably gave a nod to the group with his chosen quote of "Farkwad the eight I am!"
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Ashley Greene
Actress Ashley Greene attends the World Fencing League's Global Debut at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on April 25, 2026 in Los Angeles, California.Credit: Amanda Edwards/Getty
Ashley Greene proved how big of an Avril Lavigne fan she was with her senior quote at Samuel W. Wolfson High in Jacksonville, Fla.
The Twilight actress used lyrics from the singer's 2004 song "Who Knows" for her quote, asking, "Who knows what can happen /Do what ya do, just keep on laughing /Find yourself — there's always a brand new day."
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Lucy Liu
Lucy Liu attends the TIME Women of the Year Gala 2026 at The West Hollywood EDITION on March 10, 2026 in West Hollywood, California.Credit: Stefanie Keenan/Getty
According to USA Today, Lucy Liu, who graduated from New York's Stuyvesant High School in 1986, predicted a Pretty Woman moment with her senior quote that read, "You'll probably make a fool of yourself by using the wrong fork."
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Oscar Isaac
Oscar Isaac attends the 16th Governors Awards at The Ray Dolby Ballroom on November 16, 2025 in Hollywood, California.Credit: Amy Sussman/Getty
Isaac knew who he was early on. "I like to be different. And I'm into the arts. When you look at me, you can tell," he wrote for his yearbook quote.
Isaac answered for his quote in an April 2026 Hot Ones episode, joking with host Sean Evans, "I mean, look at me. You can tell. I'm in the arts. The dark arts."
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Gwnyeth Paltrow
Gwyneth Patrow attends the 98th Oscars at Dolby Theatre on March 15, 2026 in Hollywood, California.Credit: Arturo Holmes/Getty
As revealed by biographer Amy Odell in a 2025 Instagram post, Gwyneth Paltrow left behind a quote from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure when she graduated in 1990, and it's one that still holds up today: "Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes."
Paltrow also left behind her title as president of her New York City Spence School musical group, Triple Trio, to a very famous fellow alumni: Kerry Washington.
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Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis arrives on the red carpet at the 'Glass' NY Premiere at SVA Theater on January 15, 2019 in New York City.Credit: John Angelillo/UPI/Shutterstock
When Bruce Willis graduated from Penns Grove High School in 1973, he made a wish for his life.
"Future: to become deleriously (sic) happy or a professional harp player," he wrote in his yearbook. Thankfully for Die Hard fans, Willis did not follow through on this musical plan.
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