In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.
I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.
I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.
I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementary's school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.
It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.
There's a lot of middle school behavior in Washington, D.C. I look at that and I say, 'I've seen that before,' it was just with a 14-year-old.
Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.
I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.
Hannibal Lecter: You fly back to school, now, little Starling. Fly, fly, fly...
Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
Over at the Olivia Pope & Associates set, we're like middle school children. Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around; there's show tunes and fart noises.
My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.
When I was in high school, we used to do 15-20 hours of dance per week, and then when you graduate, you don't have that much time on your hands anymore.
