My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school.
When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.
I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.
I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.
Violet: Oh, Johnny hits on me all the time. He hits on anything in high heels.
I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.
The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.
After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour.
My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.
I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.
Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.
I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.
In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.
I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.
I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
Shopping at any level is a bit of therapy for my medulla oblongata.
I like to do things that are step by step. It takes experience to get to the next level. And you have to put your heart into it.
