Well, you know I grew up wanting to be a Clemson Tiger and I ended up being able to play there and I went to school there.
Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.
My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.
I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate nothing, waitressed - and then there was a Mary J. Blige audition.
When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.
One day I was in school, and the next I was acting opposite Jeremy Irons. That's how quickly it happened. I was in class and then working with Sir Anthony Hopkins.
My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was 'Just William.' It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.
The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.
Sarfati. That's my real last name. I don't use it a lot because I got 'Lea So-fatty,' 'Lea So-farty' at school.
What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?
I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.
When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.
When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.
'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.
I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.
I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in Italy and I have worked in Italy. I'm Italian.
I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.
I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people.
I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.
I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.
