I think all of us could play the teacher because we all grew up with teachers. It's just kind of this peeking-over-the-shoulder presence that we've all grown up knowing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.
I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.
I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like 'High School Musical.' He kind of encouraged the jocks to get involved with the plays. I did it as kind of a senior year lark.
I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
Teachers shape so much of what a kid's upbringing can be.
I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.
I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.
I was never on the side of the teachers at school. Even though I put all the work into getting the main role in the end-of-year musical when I was 11, they didn't give it me, even though they knew I should have had it. That sort of drove me into am dram and getting the main part in another production. And I did.