I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.
I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.
I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.
I remember hearing the name... 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - what the hell is that?' But I was hit by the bug as well. I used to watch the cartoon every morning before I went to school, played the video game at the arcades, and was a big fan of the comics.
I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
I left school early in my last year before I took my A-levels. I wasn't expelled. It was just a mutual understanding. I wasn't interested in going to school and they said, 'You're not turning up,' so we severed ties. Both sides appreciated it.
My generation put in a lot more hours playing football after school than kids today. These days, all the football these kids play, they play at their clubs, so the clubs need to work seriously on the basic skills.
All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
I was bullied in elementary to middle school. It messed with my self esteem.
It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced me to speak my truth. I launched #1000BlackGirlBooks, a book drive to collect the stories of women of color.
The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration.
The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
I could do my own nails... I went to beauty school in the 11th grade. But why would I do that now?
I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'
It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confused, so I grew up listening to music from all around the world.
I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.
I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity.
I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.
I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
