I never bunked school. School was always the most special place for me.

Everyone else at school was terrified of me, and they were always laughing at me.

For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.

At 14, I was modeling, which helped me come out of my shell, but I always dreamed of theater school.

When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

I've always trusted my natural instinct because nobody ever taught me how to be on the radio or produce a show, and I never went to broadcasting school or anything like that.

In middle school, I did the whole, like, 'Do you like me? Check this box yes, check this box no,' I did that to so many crushes; I always got in trouble for passing notes in school.

I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something I always missed out on, and all my friends got to go and would tell me about it.

I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.

I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they taught me there was: you need to get the whole story in one frame.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read.

My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.

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