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

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

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 was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.

I was a crazy little seven-year-old. I used to get up an hour early to watch the big kids train. I thought, 'I must absorb their awesomeness.' That was my goal from when I was seven. I told my coach, 'I'm going to the Olympics.'