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All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

It was always assumed that I would go to college.

I wanted to be a teacher.

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.

I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into - when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.

I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.