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When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high. (Agre Peter)
“I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education. As an actor, I've got by, I've had employment, I've had the good fortune to be able to work and I just feel blessed. But I do feel I have some bit of talent to create a character or move people, or entertain an audience, and that is very gratifying.” (Agre Peter)
I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through. (Agre Peter)
“At our school, he [Jack Black] was the serious thespian dramatist. When I see him rocking out now, I find it shocking.” (Agre Peter)
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“I go to see my kids in school plays, ... I watched Lorna in a concert at the Westminster College of Music the other day and it was amazing. I felt very proud – and surprised. I don't know why I was surprised, because I've known her for 17 years, but I've never seen her do anything like that in front of an audience. It's brave, it's uplifting.” (Agre Peter)
Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions. (Agre Peter)
I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble. (Agre Peter)
I'd get suspended for fighting, for graffiti, for smoking pot. And I learned that it's not worth it. (Agre Peter)
If you don't go to school, you can't play sports. (Agre Peter)
It's weird; I was not a really tough guy in high school, but I end up playing all of these psychopaths and criminals. I don't really care who they are, as long as they are complicated and going through something that I can understand and put across. (Agre Peter)
“I desperately needed a date doctor in high school.” (Agre Peter)
“Before, there was a general lack of respect for the numbers the School Committee came up with and for the way their budget was generated, ... understand what our budget is for.” (Agre Peter)
Both my brother and I were very active. I was captain of the high school swimming team. (Agre Peter)
It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays. (Agre Peter)
I got good grades. I just told jokes and got through class. (Agre Peter)
“If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.” (Agre Peter)
You know, I felt like an outsider before that. It started in high school. (Agre Peter)
“When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.” (Agre Peter)
Honestly, when people ask me these questions it just tickles me because I wasn't like this in high school. I mean it was me, but I was thinner and nerdier, and didn't have as much confidence. (Agre Peter)
“In elementary school, people made fun of me because my skin was so white and I had black hair and wore black clothes.” (Agre Peter)
“It means everything. You don't want to go through your four years of high school with a certain team beating you four years in a row. You always want to show them you can come out on top in the end.” (Agre Peter)
“I was an English and history major, and I was in a class that culminated in a play at the end of the semester for Father's Weekend-we had a thing at our college called Father's Weekend where we all paid tribute to our fathers.” (Agre Peter)
“I remember when I was in school, they would ask, ''What are you going to be when you grow up?'' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.” (Agre Peter)
Girls' school-I couldn't deal with that. I was so boy crazy at the time that the idea of not having any boys around was really depressing. (Agre Peter)
It's amazing that I did as well as I did in school. But my father really insisted on good grades, so that was like the one thing I really had to do. (Agre Peter)
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