Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first.

My parents were really encouraging of me doing theater, but the one thing they did do was say, 'You're not allowed to do film or television in high school.'

When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

Doing well in school was a cool thing to do when I was in high school, so I had a blast.

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

My parents would have loved me to go to university - Oxbridge, particularly.

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.

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

Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one.

I definitely want to continue being an actress. I love it. The reason I'm going to college is because I do want knowledge in another field. College isn't the college experience for me. I'm not going to be in a sorority. I'm not going to network. I'm not even really going to make my lifelong friends.

No one in my family graduated from college until my brother did, and then I did.

I was very smart in school. I had straight As and was going to graduate high school at 16 and start college. My dad wanted me to be a lawyer because I was very opinionated.

My mom had always been big on education. She was the first woman in our family to go to college, and she often reminded me that I needed to go to college if I wanted to really make it in life.

My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.

I studied at Cathedral School, where a lot of kids go abroad after Class XII. But I was clear that I wanted to be an actress, and thus, even though I got 92% in my board exams, I applied only to Jai Hind College for Mass Communication and got in and completed my graduation.

For Ananya, It's Bollywood all the way. She was obsessed about it, I thought there was something wrong with her. She was good at academics, so I thought she would become a doctor like my both parents. But, when she got to class VI or so I knew she would be an actress.

My mom, she wanted me to go to college and then after that you could do what you want.

My parents thought it was really important that I grow up with the high school experience, because if I was going to continue acting, there was always going to be time to do that.

My parents’ biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn’t fathom me acting for the rest of my life.