Allison Williams Quotes

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 wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.

My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career.

My mum was always more pushing me towards the academic side; she wasn't really interested in me having a professional football career.

I grew up in a family with three siblings. My parents were always very supportive and encouraging. It was important for them that we have meaningful and satisfying professions, but they didn't care as much about success and achievement.

I want to go to college, obviously go to London and just kind of figure out the rest of my life.

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

Access to a college degree is critical.

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

My mom is the type of mom who wonders why I haven't used my psychology degree to become a successful clinical psychologist.

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.

'The Cut' is going to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime and help that person achieve his or her dreams.

I didn't really know I wanted to act when I was a child. I have a lot of interests, and I really wanted to finish my education - go to college - and didn't really want to have a career as an adolescent.

Maybe it will be difficult, but I want to finish school. My parents want me to finish school, and I am pretty sure I will. I will not go to university; I will turn professional when I finish school.

I went to school because I was supposed to. I did pre-med because my mum thought it was a good idea.

I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.