Wes Brown Quotes

When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

I was a dance major at NYU, but it wasn't working out. I had friends in the drama department, so I switched.

I was a chemistry major when I first went to college, which turned out to be a huge mistake. When I realized that, I decided to try an early journalism course.

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 decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

I started doing improv my sophomore year.

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

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

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.

In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.

My brother and I did theater in high school, and were both in Pennsylvania Youth Theatre. It was awesome. When you go to Los Angeles, it's a rough city, and it's hard. You drive around in your car in your own little bubble, and there's tons of rejection. Being from the Lehigh Valley helped because it was something so stable.

I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

I went to college at San Francisco State and supported myself working the graveyard shift at a brewery and did a little theater. It was great. I'd do Shakespeare and stuff like that.

I was a math and science kid in school, but I ended up going the route of writing and music in college.

Senior year in college, a kind of confluence of events came together to have me pursue a career in acting. I was planning on being a lawyer; I double majored in history and political science. I took the LSAT and did horribly on it, and that was one thing that made me rethink a new direction.

I went to Elon University and studied musical theater. I usually did two musicals a year, but I also did a couple of plays. That was sort of always where I felt the most relaxation.

Coming into community college, I wasn't sure of where I wanted to go in my future.

Broadway doesn't mean anything in Los Angeles.

I majored in art history. But I took theater classes, and every semester I was in college productions.