Laurie Metcalf Quotes

Undergrad, for me, in college was really about, you know, how do I become a professional. But business school, for me, was how do I become the person that I'm meant to be.

When I came to BYU, I had no idea what I wanted to study. It really was a decision based on football. I wanted to come here and play football. The decision has turned out to be so much more than football.

When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

College was such a pivotal time for me. It's a time when you have so much growth, and you kind of can choose one of many different paths.

The whole point of college is to find yourself, to figure out things before you go into the real world.

Everything I ever will be is because of Texas A&M University.

I needed the time to go to college and spend years with people who aren't in the business and become a person on my own in order to be the person that I am and the performer that I am. I wouldn't give that up to be in blockbusters or have more money.

Cornell changed my life; getting in there was one of my pinnacle moments.

I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

When you reach a level of status - and making it to college is an accomplishment in itself - you are trying to define who you are.

I personally can barely remember what I was like before I came to college, what made me happy or worried or confident. I don't remember what I expected in my future, except that 'President of the United States' was about halfway up the ladder.

I feel like if I wasn't to go to jail, I probably wouldn't be the person I am - I wouldn't.

My college experience was like everyone else's. I learned a lot. I gained a new perspective on the world and on people that I'm so thankful and appreciative for.

It wasn't until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me... That's when I started to turn to literature as something deeper than a way to put up points.

Playing four years of college, you learn a lot; you learn more about yourself than anything.

I definitely enjoyed it and I am glad I did university - four years of not being in the public eye - and I met all my best friends doing it, so I am definitely glad it happened.

Thank God I applied to Howard. It's where I belonged.

It wasn't one film that changed my life, but a series of decisions that brought out the best in me.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.