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I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

I didn't mind being in school. But I was usually uninspired and always late. I did what I had to, but not more.

When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.

I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.

I didn't really know I wanted to act when I was a child. I have a lot of interests, and I really wanted to finish my education - go to college - and didn't really want to have a career as an adolescent.

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.

There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time.

I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.

I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.