I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.
I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he.
I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.
I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'
Sometimes you're a little too close for comfort, and I think anybody can relate to that, whether you're in college or just moving out on your own.
My first real break was when my college sketch troupe, The State, was asked to contribute pieces for a new MTV show called 'You Wrote It, You Watch It.'
I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.
I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.
'Ugly Betty' has opened my eyes to the world of fashion journalism - I'm looking forward to going to college for that. Until then, I don't know. Will I appear on 'Glee?'
I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.
I'm so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I'm like an English boy going to an American college. I'm thinking cheerleaders, I'm thinking kegs. That's not what's on the cards.
We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.
I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.
In college, my friend Melanie and I used to have weekly Jimmy Stewart viewings, and 'Harvey' seemed to make its way into the rotation an inordinate amount of times.
Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.
It's difficult to not be able to just be yourself without criticism in any position, whether you're in high school, college, or this industry.
I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.
In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there.
I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.
In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.
