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I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.

I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.

My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.

My father went to boarding school in Sydney when he was 14.

I was kicked out of drama school in 1976, aged 18, for vandalising the headmistress's tyres, after being there for less than a year.

I wasn't expelled for anything vicious, just being cheeky, not doing what I was told, answering back, and always rising to the bait if someone said something annoying about my dad.

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.

I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof.

I entered the University of Natal as a preliminary-year student in 1966 and stayed on to June 1972, when I was expelled from the university. I was then doing third-year medicine.

When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.