I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.
When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.
It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.
I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.
It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.
According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.
When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.
For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.
I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school.
I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.
I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.