“Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.” IfsInspirationalDoePayEducationFieldsCollegeTeenagerRunnersHomecomingOpen Fields Author:Will Rogers
“I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I got jobs in professional theatres, repertory, and stock theatres in Canada for a couple of years. And then I went to Stratford, Ontario, where I spent three years with a Shakespeare company. We took a classical play from Stratford to New York City, and I got some good notices there and essentially stayed and did live television. And that brings you to the beginning of filming.” YearsPlayJobsThreeActingCitiesCompanyNew YorkTelevisionCollegeCoupleRadioTheatreTeenagerCanadaNew York CityThree YearsMontrealOntarioLive Television Author:William Shatner
“College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.” InspirationalSchoolCollegeHigh SchoolWarmTeenagerOff To CollegeCollege Freshmen Author:George Gobel
“When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.” ArtMadeFilmStudyCollegeDadMy DadTeenagerAnimation Author:Nick Park
“Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.” KindLittlesDoneActorsFatherStarsActingBoysHeardCollegeHugeAmountLaughterTheaterTeenagerFestivalsGangApplauseLittle BoysCampusPrecociousOff To CollegeTheater Family Author:John Lithgow
“As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.” WritingPlayWantedFilmNovelCollegeTheaterTeenager Author:Richard Linklater
“I was absolutely floored as a lot of people are but also I was reunited with ideas that I actually had as a teenager and these are ideas that I had put away as I approached college years because they were ridiculous on the face of it and when you talk to someone about living forever, they just dismiss you out of hand.” PeopleYearsIdeasHandsFacesForeverCollegeRidiculousTeenagerReunitedCollege Years Author:Barry Ptolemy
“I have been doing merch' since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager - silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom's closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That's essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.” Has BeensDarkRoomsCollegeMomBandMy MomSellingTeenagerShirtsSurvivedClosetsT ShirtSilkScreeningHomemadeDoing MeDark Room Author:Steve Aoki
“A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.” InspirationalCollegeUniversityTeenagerStadiumsOff To College Author:Leonard Louis Levinson
“My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.” KindPersonsMadeCountryEnoughSchoolLastsUsedMotherFatherLostDifferencesPayClassPovertyMinutesCollegeGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolAreasLocalsSuitsTeenagerFactoriesInfantScholarshipNo MoneyLast MinuteTuitionGoing To CollegeKind PersonHigh School Class Author:Samuel Alito
“Whereas when I was a teenager, other teenagers didn't want anything to do with me. It was even like that in college to a degree. People of that age don't want anything to do with their childhood, because they had put away childish things, and they're trying to distance themselves.” PeopleWantTryingAgeChildhoodCollegeDegreesDistanceTeenagerChildish Things Author:Mara Wilson