Christie Laing Quotes

I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door to offer me admission, and it's so expensive in the U.S. If you join up for a period, the army will pay your school and provide a stipend.

I was definitely planning to go to college, but I deferred my admission to Carnegie Mellon to be in a non-equity tour of 'The Sound of Music.' But I made very little money in the tour, and college is really expensive, and I thought I'd never be able to pay off those loans.

My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I took a variety of jobs to pay for tuition - from ice-cream salesman to night-club bouncer. Whatever earned the most money in the least time.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

I never remember having a plan. All I could think about was how I was going to afford to get into college or where I was going to stay because I hated being at home. I didn't really have time to think about anything in the future. I didn't think about a career or anything. I went to uni, got a couple of jobs, so I sort of funded it myself.

I need good grades because I want to go on to do A-Levels. I'm just not sure yet about whether I will go to university, because I really want to see what happens with the acting.

My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

I got alright GCSEs, but I was lost. I didn't know what to do, whether to continue with education, go to uni, go to art school - then again, I was like, 'Maybe I should just go and get a job, start early and make money.'

Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.

I came of age when jobs were plentiful and college not exorbitantly expensive. I graduated with debt, but it was manageable, and I set off to do something I loved - journalism.

It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.

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

I want to finish high school, but that will be it.

I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.

I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

I think higher education is over-regulated.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.