Brian Blessed
Related BILL GATES I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it. TAMER HASSAN But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physica... AMANDA BURTON I wasn't a good kid in school. I wasn't a bad kid. I just didn't focus. My grades weren&... DACRE MONTGOMERY I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing. PATRICIA POLACCO LEE ATWATER I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama. TOM BAKER When I showed up at UH, my hair was past my waist. I had a goatee. I wasn't a theater geek; I wa... BRETT CULLEN I had no idea that all the things in my career were going to happen. I sure didn't see it. I jus... TONY GWYNN LIL UZI VERT RAY ROMANO There were a lot of really good teachers at Valley who taught me well and were very inspirational. T... SID GUTIERREZ JENNIFER ANISTON MATT DAMON HAROLD PINTER My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in na... KIT HARINGTON I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 ... AMANDA BURTON ALFIE ALLEN I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wa... TED LINDSAY I was very good at my work and I wasn't real good at my life. BOB GREENE Randy was a very good high school athlete. He walked on with us and probably didn't like me too much... DICK DAVEY NIKI TAYLOR I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, ... MICHAEL BERGIN There probably wasn't a day that went by in high school that I wasn't bullied either physica... JEREMY SCOTT I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school ... BILLIE WHITELAW I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am. JACKIE DESHANNON When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers b... FANTASIA BARRINO I don't know if anyone knows if they're ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotlan... SAM HEUGHAN DAN STEVENS WALTER PAYTON CHRISTINA HENDRICKS I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! BIRDY I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, s... ROGER MCGOUGH My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things ... BETTY CUTHBERT JULIA ROBERTS I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry p... LANA WOOD KATE THOMPSON INDIA DE BEAUFORT SEBASTIAN COE I'm blessed to have a dad who's always there for me and a mom who's always there for me,... TIFFANY TRUMP I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, ... GEORGE J. MITCHELL CHRIS PARNELL KEVIN JAMES I read the 'Fargo' hashtag and what people tweeted at me and every article and every comment... ALLISON TOLMAN ASTRO DAVID SOUL JESSE BALL My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things ... BETTY CUTHBERT MARY BERRY I take my son with me all of the time- I have a really good nanny, so they go with me to the trailer... ALLY WALKER MAYA ANGELOU ALISTAIR BROWNLEE The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was alw... JUSTIN VERNON I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remembe... LAURA TROTT DON RICKLES CHARLIE PUTH PAUL WALKER It wasn't that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to t... ERIC MASKIN GIADA DE LAURENTIIS RHYS IFANS I always feel like I wasn't the best trainer, because I'm really good at teaching people stu... DANIEL BRYAN PARKER POSEY PATTI SMITH CHARLIE WATTS I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher ... LIEV SCHREIBER I've become a kissing addict. I think that's it. The buzzy feeling. Burning lips. The foggy eyes. Ma... CAROL LYNCH WILLIAMS LILY JAMES I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle grou... CALLAN MCAULIFFE MINDY KALING I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny. CARROT TOP I wasn't always the most fashionable, and I would come to school with cauliflower ear and ringwo... RONDA ROUSEY JESSICA BIEL JANE HADDAM EMMANUEL JAL JOSH TURNER YVONNE STRAHOVSKI It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot t... JIM SULLIVAN ZENDAYA I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the oppo... KATE BURTON MICHAEL WEATHERLY KATHERINE RYAN DAVID M. KELLEY When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy... CASEY AFFLECK When I started on 'Roseanne,' it was a great achievement for me at the time. But I wasn'... JOHNNY GALECKI BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ELI BROAD I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was n... NIGELLA LAWSON TOM FORD I always had an inferiority complex, like I wasn't good enough. I was shy. But dancing gave me s... PATRICIA MCBRIDE I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience. CRISTIN MILIOTI One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me.... ELISE ANDREW I wasn't a troublemaker. I wasn't impertinent. The teachers liked me. But year after year, t... TIM HOWARD LAILAH GIFTY AKITA My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every ... DICK GEPHARDT When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was ... LANCE REDDICK I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I hadn't ever really told anyone. I'd always got quite... KIMBERLEY NIXON ANAT COHEN PETER CAPALDI I was a troublemaker. I would start fights with other kids and disturb class. He's taught me good ma... DANIEL TORRES I wanted to join the Army, but my eyesight wasn't good, so I quit school and my job to just focu... ALISTAIR OVEREEM
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