I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.
I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.
You don't learn acting, you nourish it. I don't regret not going to drama school because I was very afraid of all the lessons. I'm allergic to technicality.
For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.
I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell.
I played basketball. I went to school and played basketball and was trying to pursue that as a career path and kind of just fell into acting.
That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.
When I was applying to college, my mother told me I could apply to any school within the Boston subway map.
I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.
I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood.
I was born in Dallas; then I moved to Allen, Texas. But then I got sent to boarding school, where I started to get fascinated with actors like Al Pacino.
Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.
Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.
That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.
I've come to learn, and to establish mine in that same place i come from. Staying in my school place makes me always a student.
When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months.
I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.
I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.
In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.
I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.
Keep one thing in your mind; your school & friends can never teach you properly ,"how to be a good husband & father.
