Robert Klein Quotes

As the final weeks of my schooling draw to a close and exams loom, I find myself reflecting on the past six years of my secondary education only to realise that many questions are still unanswered. How have I been shaped by my learning experiences? What skills have I developed that are valuable and transferable in the workplace?

I went to Huddersfield University Business School. That's where I learned my trade.

I actually studied with The Groundlings.

When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

Honestly, my biggest education regarding improv comedy actually came on the job working for 'My Boys.'

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

In the long run, a second class education always costs more money than a first class education.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

I always honestly dreamed of coming to Second City in Chicago, although I've never even been there to see a show. But I did a ton of sketch comedy at the Second City in LA, which (at the time, in a different location) wasn't really a theater, it was just a space where you took some classes.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

It doesn't hurt to get more education.

Many of the people I've worked with over the years came from a sketch-comedy background or an improv background, and I've learned a lot from them.

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

I have a plan to make tuition debt-free for public colleges and universities.

I still feel like the person who shouldn't be doing this and everyone is acting around me as if I'm a badass all the time. And this still feels like a stretch. I realize this is something that is incredible. I get to do this and I get wonderful teachers to help me and it's amazing.

You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

I really enjoy auditions anyway because I think that even if you come out of them, and you go in once and it never goes anywhere, there is something that you bring out of it or a note that will come back to your agent and that's the way you learn.

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.