I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.
From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.
I knew acting was what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was brilliant at it, but when I was doing school plays, I loved it so much I didn't want it to end. I feel like I'm exactly the same as when I was doing plays at school, to be honest.
What drew me into being an actor was that I never got cast in the school plays - and it used to kill me.
I feel like my early experiences of acting, and I think a lot of other actors' too, are probably at camp or school plays where you get to have great range. At camp, I remember getting to play a 50-year-old man.
I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.
I briefly flirted with the idea of more stable career choices but they never excited me. I know it's a bit of a cliche but I remember doing school plays in primary school and feeling at home on the stage.
I did school plays, and then, at the age of 18, I applied to drama school in London, and I got in. I've been very lucky that no one so far has stopped me from being able to live my dream - the industry or my parents.
I go to see my kids in school plays.
I played Li'l Abner and Batman in school plays; I wanted to be an actor to play all these different characters.
Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
It wasn't until high school that I actually started writing. I was in a lot of the school plays and musicals, and there was a lot of down time during rehearsals. I would go into the orchestra pit and mess around on the grand piano.
I've never said that you should have segregation of the school system or any other.
I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.
I know that the DeVos agenda has absolutely devastated our public school system in Michigan.
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.
For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.
