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.
My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad's Southern side that impacted on me musically.
I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.
When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.
Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.
I've built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great - I learned more from you than I did in college.
My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.
I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.
I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.
I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.
Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.
I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.
A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer.
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
There was a time in my life that my mother told me that they didn't know whether they were going to send me to college or an institution, and it's rough to hear that... Childhood is tough.
Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
