When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.
My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.
And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.
I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.
One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.
I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.
By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.
My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.
In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.
America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.
I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.
I didn't see many films until I was in college teaching.
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.
If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.
I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.
Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.
After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists.
When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.
One by one, all of my college buddies had taken these nothing-special entry-level jobs, pushing papers for $18,000 or $21,000 a year (and hating the work besides), and I'd turn up my nose and tell them I wasn't about to get out of bed for anything less than $50,000. That was my line, my attitude.
After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.
You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It's hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football. You can't keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren't always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.
I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.
I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.
