You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.
I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.
Every time I work with a star, I learn a lot. Also, I teach a lot because I'm a shoemaker, a designer. I'm born with a pencil in my hand. For old teenagers like me it's good to learn.
Our school not only makes you an actor, it makes you understand who you actually are as well... it gives you discipline and punctuality. It also teaches you a way of life.
People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.
Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.
I became an actress because I'm lazy. I wouldn't apply myself at school.
I've basically guest-starred on every show that you can imagine. I am pretty used to being the new kid in school.
As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.