Eniola Aluko Quotes

You've got to make sure every decision you make is right for you as a person. If you think you can go to a better club than the one you're at, then, regardless of what anyone says, you should go.

I'm glad I dropped out of high school, man. I wouldn't be where I'm at. I would have had a net. I'm glad I didn't have anything to fall back on, man, because that made me go for my dreams that much harder.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

The vast majority of kids in my school went on to college. That's just what you did. And I remember feeling like, 'No, I'm not doing that.' The idea that college was next, that it was a given, meant it was of no interest to me. So I didn't go.

College is right for some people, and it's not for others. I shouldn't rush into it just because that's what everyone does after high school is you go to college.

I didn't graduate. I was doing theater in Michigan the summer after my junior year and just moved on to New York.

Ain't nothing wrong with college, but I just feel like everyone's paths are different.

If something's gonna make you happy, and you know it's gonna make you happy, and it's what you want more than anything in the world, don't let someone else discourage you and talk you out of doing it just because they're doubters.

I dropped out of high school when I was, like, 15, so I just focused on doing music. It's all I wanted to do; I didn't want to work or anything else. I took all the negativity and obstacles that came with life, and I just put it in the music.

I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didn't want to be either one.

Although I did end up trying out several different fields before committing to acting, I knew in the deepest part of heart that I wanted to be an actress.

I'm 23, so I'm not done with my life. But acting, definitely, out of what I've done so far, makes me feel the most alive and is very invigorating and thrilling. So I figured I might as well try it for a while.

When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live in misery and die teaching other people's children badly.' My parents wanted the safer path for me, and I think they failed miserably achieving that.

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.

I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.

I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.