Chris Geere Quotes

I got a sociology degree and then had an opportunity to go to graduate school. But I said no, because I wanted to give songwriting a shot.

You know when I was a high school student I wasn't a very good student. Upon graduation we were asked if we would become a full working adult or go to university. I decided to go to film school and still to this day I try to avoid being a full working adult.

Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it.

I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job.

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.

I didn't go to university, and I always had in my mind that I hadn't studied properly.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

My family thought it was insanity for me to go into the theater rather than to get an education.

I got alright GCSEs, but I was lost. I didn't know what to do, whether to continue with education, go to uni, go to art school - then again, I was like, 'Maybe I should just go and get a job, start early and make money.'

I didn't get into university, so I had to go to drama college!

I didn't know whether to join the army or go to art college.

In school, all my teachers and my mum were super routing for me to study at Oxford. I picked music as a career choice, and this didn't sit too well with them!

If that is your route, to go to university and get a job that way, that is fantastic.

I went to community college for graphic design, and I loved it, but I wasn't into the school thing, so that didn't work out.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

Stay in college, kids. Otherwise, you may become an umpire.

I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or going the acting route. I chose acting, figuring I could always do the music on my own.

While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could show in mental culture, I had an earnest desire for something more than a mere business education... I desired to study for a profession, and this prompted me to leave my native state.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

College wasn't something I saw myself doing.