There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.
If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.
I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.
As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.
The first time I ever acted was in 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and my first line was, 'I didn't know Shakespeare had a sister.'
I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.
I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.
Clown's Joy: Six years of drama school... for this.
If you could replace high-school yearbooks, that could be a lot of money. It's so clearly waiting for someone to come along.
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.
I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.
In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.
I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.
I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.
I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.
My mom didn't let me play tackle until I was in high school. She didn't want me to get hurt.
