Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.

I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

I have to be a teacher to my daughters.