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When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

When I was 17, I moved to Sydney to study set design at NIDA.

I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.

I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.

At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.