Kiara Advani Quotes

I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.

I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

I didn't really know exactly the point where I wanted to be an actor. But I know at this point, because I never went to college, I don't really have anything to fall back on.

I graduated from Jones College, man, in Jacksonville, Florida, baby! I couldn't get in anywhere else, man. I was the worst student ever. I couldn't get in anywhere else. My father insisted I go to college, so I graduated, made the dean's list and everything.

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.

But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.

I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.

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.

Access to a college degree is critical.

After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said, 'That's fine. We support you, but you have to go to school,' which was fine because I'm a studious person anyway; I enjoy it.

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.

I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

It was always assumed that I would go to college.

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

On the street where I lived, they almost didn't know the word 'university,' and my mother was simply appalled when it was suggested to her that I was to go to a drama college.

My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.

I was the first in my family to go to college.