Chandra Wilson Quotes

So I decided on science when I was in college.

After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

I tried to double major in Psychology & Theater at Loyola Marymount but felt I needed to concentrate more on theater.

They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.

College is right for some people, and it's not for others. I shouldn't rush into it just because that's what everyone does after high school is you go to college.

As much as I've always dreamed of going to college, I have to think about whether it is the right decision for me.

Music was something I chose that I came to as a kid, and acting was something that was suggested to me.

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.

I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

I did some plays in high school. Yes. Never took it that seriously. My parents, however, wanted me to go to college. My grades weren't exactly spectacular so they figured acting might be a necessary back door into some school.

I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

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?

At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.

I went to theater school, and then comedy... just happened.

If they want to go to college and then leave, let them leave when they want to leave. Why would we force a kid to stay? 'Well - it's good for the game?' It's about these kids and their families.

I never had a paying job that was not in theatre.

When I left high school - I was younger than my classmates, just 17 - I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I thought, 'When I go to college, I'd rather study something else.'