“I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6, 000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I wanted that challenge.”
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You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.
I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.