I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.
As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.
As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.
I got along with mostly everyone, but music school does that to you. We had to sing in a choir all the time, so we had to get along with everyone.
My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.
Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.
I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.
I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies.
I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.
A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.
I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must go to the knowledge.
I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.
Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.
Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.
A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'
At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
