Spike Jonze Quotes

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

It never even crossed my mind I wouldn't go to college.

On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.

I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

It was always assumed that I would go to college.

My parents tried to convince me that school won't always be there, but auditions will. I said, 'Really? Are they tearing down NYU?'

All of the great big men went to college at least two or three years. I think it's a big factor. I don't know if it will always work, but I think it's the best choice.

I enjoyed my time at L.S.U. I wouldn't change it for anything. My dad went to college - my sisters, brothers - so I felt like I just had to, and I enjoyed it.

I never did figure on being a college man.

My whole life, they said, 'Do not act. You need to get a college degree'.

By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.

I applied to Yale, and I got in.

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case.

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.

I was born knowing I had to go to college.