By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.