Simon Helberg Quotes

College education is the engine of social mobility in this country.

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.

I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.

To us [The Lake Area Technical Institute of South Dakota -- LATI], a student is successful if they're placed [In a job, in more education or in the Military]. We talk to them about 'Where do you want to be? Where do you want to go with your life?

I moved to Mumbai to pursue my degree after high school.

In June 2007, I finished up school for the year. I didn't know it at the time, but I was done with college forever. By the end of the summer, I had dropped out and would not return.

If you get better educated, you might yourself higher up the ladder, but the ladder will still be there.

I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.

I owe my career to J.J. Abrams. He fought for me.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

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.

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

I have been very fortunate in that my career has taken me on a journey I could only have dreamed of.

Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy.