When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.
One day I was in school, and the next I was acting opposite Jeremy Irons. That's how quickly it happened. I was in class and then working with Sir Anthony Hopkins.
My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was 'Just William.' It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.
The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.
Sarfati. That's my real last name. I don't use it a lot because I got 'Lea So-fatty,' 'Lea So-farty' at school.
What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?
I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.
When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.
When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.
'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.
I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.
I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in Italy and I have worked in Italy. I'm Italian.
I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.
I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people.
I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.
I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.
I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.
Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses.
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
