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I didn't really enter into the real world until I was probably at drama school.

Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.

I was interested in wildlife conservation, and I chose Georgia because they supposedly had a good forestry school. I figured it might be easier to get good grades there, too, because a lot of Southern kids would come up to school in New Jersey, and they'd always be a little behind, so I figured maybe I wouldn't have to work so hard.

I was pre-med in college, and so since a lot of people take a year off before they go to med school, I decided to take the time to pursue theater - six months later, I was on Broadway.

Muhlenberg is the school that made me and shaped me into the actor I am today.

I'm really embracing that very out, very loud, very free persona that I am now but that I didn't get to be in high school.

I love Muhlenberg. I'm an academic. I needed a small school with incredible programs and found that here. I learned so much and grew so much in four years.

My high school coach is an African American studies teacher, so I respect his perspective as an older white guy who has a master's in African American studies.

I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

I was trying to become a legitimate trumpet player, and I had a scholarship to Eastman School of Music. I was really on my way. But I didn't take the scholarship. I got sidetracked, because when summers came around, I started playing with a rock-and-roll band.

I went to school because I was supposed to. I did pre-med because my mum thought it was a good idea.

Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.

I never went to acting school; when someone expounds on motivation and all that stuff, I don't understand it. I was just lucky to be able to do what I did. When I started, people said I was very natural, which I guess is difficult for a lot of people to be.

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

All my closest friends are the ones I made at school.

I was just thankful to be a student manager, and if that led to a high school coaching job or maybe I could stick at a small Division I school as an assistant, that would have been a success for me.

When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'

'Boys of Summer,' to me, is like the end of the summer, man. That heartbreaking feeling where you have to go back to school, your summer love is coming to an end, and the leaves are changing. That was always such an emotional time for me as a kid, because I loved summer so much.

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

At school, I'd sing in groups in the locker room or in the bathroom, which was like an echo chamber. The problem is I didn't know how to get started singing professionally. The pool hall was my Facebook. I'd hang out there to keep up with what was going on and to let people know where I could be reached if singing jobs came up.