Natalie Portman Quotes

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

You know when I was a high school student I wasn't a very good student. Upon graduation we were asked if we would become a full working adult or go to university. I decided to go to film school and still to this day I try to avoid being a full working adult.

Graduating from college and starting your life as an adult is a giant transition no matter what.

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

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

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.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

I don't really have any strategy for my career.

I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When I graduated in 1968 it was quite a shock to find out that there was a world out there and that it wasn't going to support me.

College wasn't something I saw myself doing.

To start your working life after you've graduated from school and university, it takes you a long time to get started in the real world. Today, kids are not out into the workforce until 27 or 30 years of age. By the time I was 30, I had six kids and 60 trucks.

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.

I didn't want to go to college, and my parents said, 'Well, then you'd better get a job, because we're not paying for you to drop out of school.' So I delivered pizza near USC for a while. We had to wear khakis and a baseball hat with the logo on it, and I worked almost every day.

I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.

When I was 17, I was excited to graduate from high school!

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

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

Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.

Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.

I've never had a job. I've never needed to.

I moved out after college, and I started working right away, and I've been working ever since.