Sarah Steele Quotes

I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

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.

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.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

I don't know if ISU helped me become what I am, but I know that if I hadn't gone there, I wouldn't be what I am today.

Living in Chicago as a country boy, basically, and going to college made a very big impact on me.

The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22.

After I'd gotten a year under my belt in college, I thought I'd outgrown my home.

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.

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.

I'd promised my parents that I'd go to college, take the time to grow up a bit, and experience something different before really pursuing music.

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

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

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

I'm in the very fortunate position as a young actor to not have to take the first job that comes along. I'm not motivated by money at this stage in my life, I'm motivated by work.

It wasn't until I went to college and met different people from different areas of life - and then went to San Francisco and met people who really knew who the hell they were - that I kind of caught up in a hurry.

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

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything.