Celebrity School Days
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Were you the gawky kid at school? Couldn\'t quite keep up with the rest of the class? Take heart - some of Hollywood\'s biggest stars admit to having had a hard time in high school. Find out what they have to say about their school days...
Jennifer Lopez
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Stephanie Herlory,
Jennifer Lopez\'s best friend from New York\'s Preston High School, says: \'She was very straightforward, and if you were getting on her bad side, she\'d let you know it. She was tough. Nobody wanted to be her enemy.\' Some of her biggest brawls were with her older sister Leslie, whom she once chased with a knife. \'She was always getting into huge fights with Leslie. It would start out with just screaming, then when their tempers really flared, it would turn into a wild catfight. Jennifer and I both spent some time in after-school detention.\' And the recently married (again) diva herself admits she didn\'t enjoy her schooling. \'I wasn\'t the most popular girl in class,\' she says. \'I had my friends, but I was comfortable with myself. There\'s always those most popular girls and I wasn\'t one of those.\'
Liv Tyler
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Liv Tyler will be hoping her son Milo has better luck at school than she did. \'I quit when I was 14,\' she confesses. \'I always hated school, uniforms, having to sit behind your desk all day. I don\'t need education like that.\'
Ashton Kutcher
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\'Punk\'d\' star
Ashton Kutcher was a bad boy long before he was Demi Moore\'s toyboy. It was only his love of drama that kept the young star on track. \'I was always getting in trouble,\' he says. \'Nothing really bad, although I did break into my own high school one time, and I got arrested by the police. I didn\'t like school but I loved drama. I got great grades in it, and it absolutely helped me get where I am today. In fact, just about everything I learned in high school comes in handy now. Above all, I learned about the work ethic, and that applies to my life now more than ever.\'
Tom Cruise
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dyslexia made his school days a misery, due to his cruel classmates. \'I was extremely lonely,\' he says. \'I didn\'t have many friends. I was dyslexic and a lot of kids made fun of me. That experience made me tough inside because you learn to quietly accept abuse and ridicule\'
Brad Pitt
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Brad Pitt was a hit with the girls. \'I had the usual sort of fights over girls,\' says
Angelina Jolie\'s other half. \'From memory, I won one - probably because I took a cheap shot like grabbing the guy\'s nuts, or something - and lost one. The only serious damage was to my ego.\' It was during his years at the town\'s Kickapoo (?!) High School in Springfield, Missouri that the young Brad first found media appreciation - by posing for a campus calendar. He went on to major in journalism but he left two credits short of his degree to try his luck in California
Drew Barrymore
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Drew Barrymore never finished high school, such was her determination to make the transition from child star to fully-fledged movie actress. \'I never liked school and it was doing nothing for me so I quit,\' she says. \'I think I can look back now and say I made the right decision.\'
George Clooney
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George Clooney says, \'I was always questioning things at school and getting into trouble for it. Then along comes this film that says if the only thing that separates man and birds is our ability to reason, then how can you ask us not to use it? I remember seeing Dead Poets Society and walking out of the theatre, thinking, \'I\'ve got to do something with my life.\'
Hugh Grant
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\'The only thing I liked about school was being in the school play,\' says Bridget Jones\'s Diary star
Hugh Grant. \'I liked the attention, I liked the fact that the girls\' school was involved, I liked the girls liking me in the lead parts, I liked making people laugh.\'
Christina Aguilera
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\'My school days were miserable. The jealousy got so bad that our neighbours slashed our car tyres,\' says pop diva
Christina Aguilera, who attended North Allegheny High School in Wexford, Pennsylvania. She landed her first music deal a few months before her school graduation. She\'d spent the previous couple of terms away from school, recording her debut album and launching her hit single Genie in a Bottle. But not wanting to miss out on her school prom she returned to face the wrath of her fellow pupils. High-school buddy Marcie Craig Reilly recalls: \'I remember Christina saying to me, \'I want to have the same memories as everyone else, I want to go to the prom\'. Christina had told me that it was lonely.\'
Jennifer Garner
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Jennifer Garner was too busy chasing boys to take any notice of her teachers. \'Oh, I loved guys and I was always chasing them but they never seemed to be interested in me,\' she says. \'It took a while until that process reversed itself!\'
Keira Knightley
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Like Tom Cruise,
Keira Knightley had to combat dyslexia during her school days. \'I am dyslexic,\' she says. \'I used to have to wear special glasses to help me read. But I was only interested in acting. I was so desperate that I made a deal with my parents. The only way they could get me to do my school work was to get me an agent.\'
Quentin Tarantino
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High school drop-out Quentin Tarantino doesn\'t miss his days in class. \'They used to make fun of my hair, my jaw or the way I talk. I\'ve gotten over it, but it hurt my feelings,\' says the \'Kill Bill\' director. \'Who needs that sh*t? I didn\'t want to go through that sh*t in high school - that\'s why I dropped out.\'
Pierce Brosnan
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\'I left school at 15, feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education,\' says Mama Mia! star
Pierce Brosnan. \'I grew up going to school with the Christian Brothers and you stand up and say "Our Father" and some little kid walks in and he\'s late for school and you watch him literally get the sh*t kicked out of him. That always just messed with my head.\'
Pink
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Pink started her wild ways long before her music career. At school she was a rebel and had her first piercings aged just 12. \'I suppose I felt the need to have some sort of statement that was also my armour,\' she says. \'Everything had to be on the edge, I only knew how to express myself by being self-destructive. I was out of control but that was all part of my experience. I had to go through it and I\'m glad I did. I fought a lot but I learnt a lot. If other kids do the same that is up to them, everyone has a right to their own experience. I\'m just glad I was lucky enough to survive.\'
Robert De Niro
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\'I was pretty quiet at school,\' says Hollywood legend Robert De Niro. \'I stuck to myself a lot. So when I went to acting school it was a way of trying to get myself to open up a bit more and not be so reserved. As things turned out, I devoted myself so much to my acting that I forgot all about opening up my own personality.\'
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Former Buffy beauty Sarah Michelle Gellar found fame early when she starred in a number of commercials on American TV. \'That made it tough at school sometimes,\' she says. \'A lot of people at school were very jealous because they would see me on TV and knew that I was making a lot of money and so their impression of me changed. They imagined I thought I was so cool when the real truth was that I felt like the outsider and that no one liked me. That was very tough for me and it kind of complexed me for a long time.\'
Jude Law
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During his school days, Jude Law was once accidentally assigned to a girls\' dormitory when his name caused confusion among school officials. \'I didn\'t do badly at school but I was more interested in drama and school plays than anything else,\' he says. \'My mum and dad didn\'t have a problem with that and encouraged me. I think I was about six when I did my first school play. My parents also encouraged me to take my education seriously just in case things didn\'t work out in acting. I hated it at times but I got through it.\'
Sharon Stone
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\'When I started going to school I think I got on everyone\'s nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids,\' Hollywood star Sharon Stone says. \'School was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.\'
Tobey Maguire
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Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire\'s parents split up when he was a child and he was shuttled between parents, grandparents and other relatives. He attended 15 schools before he reached high school. \'I moved around so much that I hated school,\' he says. \'I just got fed up with trying to make new friends all the time. I didn\'t want to always be the outsider.\'
Eminem
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\'I was a smart kid, but I hated school,\' says superstar rapper Eminem, aka Marshall Mathers. \'I failed ninth grade three times. I just wanted to rap. I\'d go to friends\' houses and rap, or I\'d stay in my room all day, standing by the mirror and lip-syncing songs, trying to look cool.\'
Guy Ritchie
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RocknRolla director Guy Ritchie suffered at school due to a learning difficulty that was not recognised by his teachers. \'I had no interest whatsoever in what I was being taught,\' he says. \'At first, they all focused on the fact I was lazy and disruptive. My association with school was totally negative.\'
Woody Allen
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\'My problems all started with my early education,\' says Oscar-winning director Woody Allen. \'I went to a school for mentally disturbed teachers.\'
Cher
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Actress and singer Cher left school early, simply to follow her peers. \'By the time I reached 11th grade, all my girlfriends had graduated,\' she says. \'I just couldn\'t deal with school any more and so, three weeks into the term, I quit.\'
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