We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.'
There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.
It's weird that I've ended up playing so many real live people, because I was never any good at impersonations at school.
I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.
I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.
Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?
Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.
When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God.
Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.
If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
I didn't excel too highly in school, but I felt that I was moving ahead - and not just in boxing - but in life.
People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who is an actor!
There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.
I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.
