College Quotes - Page 34

• I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

  LL Cool J

  School, Mean, Years

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wrote comedy sketches in college.

  Ellie Kemper

  Comedy

  "Ellie Kemper Writes For McSweeney's, Was A High School Student of Jon Hamm's, and Single-Handedly Saved Us From A Too-Serious Season of The Office". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. May 20, 2010.

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• I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

  Rachel Kushner

  Young, Wanted, Precocious

  "Rachel Kushner: 'I know what it feels like to crash a motorcycle at 140mph'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2013.

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• After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professionally throughout college. I actually got my SAG card in college.

  Zachary Knighton

  School, Stuff, Cards

  "Happy Beginnings and 'Happy Endings' for Zachary Knighton". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. February 23, 2012.

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• I thought I was going to be a theater actor. I moved to New York after college and did some plays and worked a lot. Once the realities of living as a theatrical actor hit me, I realized I wanted to start making a little bit of money and not have to bartend and work in theater.

  Zachary Knighton

  New York, Reality, Play

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• In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center, and that's where I got my agent.

  Zachary Knighton

  Careers, Agents, Fellowship

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• At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

  Barnaby Keeney

  Teaching, School, People

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• I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  Crazy, Guy, Together

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• I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

  David Knopfler

  Punishment, Liable, Gravity

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• Get your product in front of actual, living, breathing strangers. Your college roommate's approval does not mean there's market demand.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Mean, Breathing, Doe

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• Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.

  Kent McCord

  Study, Obsolescence

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• The rule in the women's colleges was that after 7 p.m. all men were beasts. Up until 7 p.m. they were all angels, and the girls simply had to learn to live with that routine and practise love in the afternoon.

  Harry Gordon Johnson

  Girl, Angel, Men

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• Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

  Jack Kingston

  Military, Class, Everyday

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• I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

  John Krasinski

  Teacher, One Day, Groups

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• I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester.

  Peter Krause

  Half, Meds, Semester

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wish I could have skipped college.

  Saul Kripke

  Wish

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• I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.

  Jane Lynch

  Television, Watching Television

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• I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

  Laura Lippman

  Kids, People, Age

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• Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

  Lee Majors

  Football, Knees, Young

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick.

  Tia Mowry

  Real, Doctors, Mind

  Seventenn Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 19, 2007.

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• My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.

  Vijay Mallya

  Father, Ordinary, Helping

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• I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

  Zosia Mamet

  Reading, Loner, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Party, School, Rocks

  "Tribeca Interview: Abigail Breslin and Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones : Rock God Meets Rock Child". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 06, 2011.

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• I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

  Dean Norris

  School, Boxing, Black

  "Q&A – Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. May 2010.

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• When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

  Dean Norris

  Comedy, Pranks

  "Q&A: Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2008.

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