I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.
By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.
Republicans get a lot of money from big business, but they are not tied to the union dollar. As a result they have been aggressive advocates of school reform, charter schools and vouchers for private schools.
A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.
I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.
I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.
I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.
In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.
I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.
How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen.
If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.
By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest.
We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.
As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.
I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don't even speak Spanish at all.
There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.
When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. ...
If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on anot...
