Nyu Quotes

• I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college. I was not outspoken when I was younger and I hated being the center of attention. But I had a dream of being an actor. I went to NYU and studied theatre. I learned a craft. And began my career straight out of college.

  Peter Facinelli

  Dream, Growing Up, College

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

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• Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.

  David Dinkins

  Children, Fun, Real

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• A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

  Russell Banks

  Couple, Years, Taught

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife

  Woody Allen

  Cheating, Wife, Dean

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• I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.

  Todd Phillips

  Writing, Cheesy, Sound

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

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• I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

  Lady Gaga

  House, Parent, Way

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

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• My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.

  Peter Facinelli

  School, Advice, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday

  Alexis Bledel

  College, Years, Someday

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• I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Technique, Use

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• I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

  Casey Wilson

  Drama, School, Play

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• The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.

  Sharon Olds

  Teaching, Community, Wonderful

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• My ex-wife was a philosophy major at NYU. Yeah, she and I used to have deep philosophical discussions where she would prove that I didn't exist.

  Woody Allen

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Wife

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• I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Passion, Writing, School

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

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• And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Character, Two, Feelings

  "Sean Durkin and Elizabeth Olsen". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• NYU Film School was the way to learn about film, to be exposed to film, to go to repertory houses, to be exposed to New York and see films. I would go to the library and see one, two or three movies a day.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  New York, School, Two

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

  Billy Crystal

  Film Directing, Comedian, Actors

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.

  Danai Gurira

  Fighting, Play, Training

  "'The Walking Dead's' Danai Gurira Excited to Embody Badass Michonne". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 22, 2012.

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• It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street!

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Transformation, Malls, Insidious

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• There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring Julliard and NYU and Yale and hundreds of schools across the country graduate classes of trained actors, and in those classes are actors of color. So to say that there aren't enough actors of color is factually inaccurate.

  Andre Holland

  Country, Spring, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Photography, New York, Years

  "The New World of Nicolas Berggruen". Interview with Richard Bradley, www.worth.com. October 21, 2012.

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• I went to NYU for acting, for six years. I thought acting was the easy way out or in because I didn't put in enough effort in school, being a crazy kid in college. But, I was good at it, so that was the other side of it. I would love to direct. What I've learned from being on set is more how to deal with actors than even the visual part of it all.

  Drea de Matteo

  Crazy, School, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major.

  John Leguizamo

  Art, Drama, School

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

  James Franco

  School, Diaries, Adderall

  "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky on Drugs, S&M, and The Adderall Diaries". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2016.

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• I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that was supposed to pay my tuition, and I used it to make a film. For the longest time, I never actually graduated. And about 70 percent of the things I learned there I had to unlearn, but 30 percent was really valuable. It's like Mark Twain said, "Don't let school get in the way of your education."

  Jim Jarmusch

  School, Degrees, Tuition

  Source: www.avclub.com

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