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I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.

I studied in eight schools and did not get to be in a school for more than two years, as I was always requested to get out, even though I was not thrown out ever.

Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was the norm - so I did the same thing.

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 dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn't one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.

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

I was a complete outsider in high school.

In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.