College Quotes

• It's interesting because with a lot of people who I've met in comedy, it seems not to matter what your background is. In terms of formal schooling - I feel like that's a nineteenth century term - but in terms of where you went to high school or college, or wherever, all that really is irrelevant, I have found, in comedy.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • People
  • School
  • High

• Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.

  

  Anna Chlumsky
  • Done
  • Business
  • Pretty

• I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Business
  • Understood
  • Manager

• I dropped out of college and ended up making this feature film I wrote when I was 19 with some friends. It was terrible.

  

  Jason Woliner
  • Up
  • Friends
  • College

• Early '90s, I was big, big into Sinatra. I was in college. I was fascinated.

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • College

• Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • College

• Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

  

  Louise Slaughter
  • College

• My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.

  

  Alan King
  • College
  • Brother

• I've picked a camera up a few times. I remember buying my first camera when I was about 18 and really going wild with it, as you do as an 18-year-old, especially when you're in college.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Up
  • Remember
  • College

• I went to college for communications, so I came out and said I wanted to work for the greatest communications company, and I ended up at HBO - and I couldn't have been happier. And now, as an actress, I wound up back at HBO - and they truly are the best.

  

  Jazmyn Simon
  • Up
  • Work
  • College

• I got a card in the mail from a close college friend saying that she was proud of me and what I've been doing. It was very sweet and honest. Nobody writes letters anymore, so when you get one in the mail, it feels very special.

  

  Chris Wood
  • She
  • Friend
  • Proud

• Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • Fall
  • Advice
  • Realizing

• I was never really interested in studies and was hot-headed and rebellious in college, as I was totally confused and insecure but was not coming to terms with it.

  

  Emraan Hashmi
  • College
  • Confused

• I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

  

  Bret Easton Ellis
  • College

• I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• It always has been a goal of mine to compete in the Olympics. Right after I graduated from college, I moved out to Salt Lake City with my mind focused on making the 2014 team.

  

  Brittany Bowe
  • Mind
  • Team
  • City

• I've lived all over Europe, spent a lot of time in London, went to school in Scotland, college in America, so I do think I have sort of a sensibility on a fairly global level.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Time
  • School
  • America

• Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates.

  

  John Wozniak
  • School
  • High
  • Smoking

• I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen!

  

  Kyle Chandler
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Dad

• In sixth grade, I went to a very good private school, and I did learn there. I learned how to read and write. If I had quit school in sixth grade, I would know as much as I know today and would have made one more movie. By the time I got to college, I was so bored and angry.

  

  John Waters
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Children
  • College
  • Wisdom

• My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations.

  

  Bobby Moynihan
  • World
  • Believe
  • School

• Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.

  

  Ellen Ochoa
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• When I was in high school in the early 1960s, I wanted to be an animator and even took art classes. But by the time I was in college, I realized I couldn't draw well enough.

  

  Ed Catmull
  • Time
  • School
  • Art

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