I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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 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.
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.
One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.
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.
When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour.
When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.
My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school.
My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.
My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.
Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.
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.
When I was a little girl at school, I really wanted to be Katie or Sarah or Sophie. When you're a little girl at school, you want to be like the other little girls.
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.
I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.
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.
