I wasn't even prepared to be an actress. I was 17 when I came out of high school, and suddenly became Miss World and then I became an actress.
When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.
Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.
There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls' school in the country near Bath. It was a non-selective school and the right environment for me: academically not particularly pushy.
That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.
The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.
I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of picked on those cheerleaders!
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.
Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.
I just couldn't get into the high school scene at all. I was fat, ugly and weird. I just couldn't do the makeup and the hairdos.
But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
I played golf competitively as a teenager. I actually took a year off after high school and just played golf and went to a university in France for maybe a month and dropped out.
I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.
I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.
I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.
The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
In my early teens, I was a janitor. In high school, I got up early to deliver to accounts that required early service.
II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.
I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of school and said, 'OK, it will be Shakespeare,' and it was like, 'Or, it will be commercials and soaps.'
I also played two years of high school football but I wasn't very, how shall I say it, talented.
