Alex Trebek Quotes

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make some money and pay the bills.

I went to UCLA for a year and a quarter. There were too many students at UCLA interested in what I was interested in, and they couldn't accommodate all of us. I wasn't allowed to take voice or dance, only theater and acting. So I saved my money and, at 19, moved to New York.

There's a reasonable amount of traction in college education, particularly engineering, because quite a lot of that is privatized, so there is an incentive to set up new colleges of reasonably high quality.

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

I actually ended up in fashion as opposed to sport because I needed the money. And it turned out that it tapped all my skills.

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career.

In 1981, I borrowed 2,000 pounds - a lot of money back then - paid 50 quid for a seat, packed my own sandwich, and hopped on a plane to America. It was a mighty leap, but one that paid off. A week later, I got a job called 'Remington Steele.'

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

Access to a college degree is critical.

During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn't be a teacher. My aunt Beth's friend was Jackie Gleason's daughter, Linda Miller. She encouraged me to talk to her. After doing that, she recommended Catholic University's M.F.A. acting program. So that's what I did.

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.