‘I don’t want to be stupid.’
Despite trying nearly every trick in the book, Winkler found it extremely difficult to succeed in school, which not only resulted in punishment from his parents, but kept him from participating in school dances or plays.
“I was grounded for most of my high school career. They thought if I stayed at my desk for 6 weeks at a time, I was going to get it and they were just going to put an end to the silliness of my laziness. That was going to be that.”
Despite his struggles in high school, Winkler went on to graduate with an MFA from Yale University.
However, he once again ran into some issues after graduation. Reading scripts proved to be quite difficult.
“You learn to negotiate with your learning challenge. I improvised. I never read anything the way that it was written in my entire life.”
“I could instantly memorize a lot of it and then what I didn’t know, I made up and threw caution to the wind and did it with conviction and sometimes I made them laugh and sometimes I got hired,” he said.
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