Alex Trebek Quotes

Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations.

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

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.

If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.

As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.

I was definitely planning to go to college, but I deferred my admission to Carnegie Mellon to be in a non-equity tour of 'The Sound of Music.' But I made very little money in the tour, and college is really expensive, and I thought I'd never be able to pay off those loans.

I graduated from college when I was 20. To get enough money to finish college, I went into the ROTC, and I was an officer in the Air Force before I could buy a drink.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

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

I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.

I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.

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.

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.

To make money for college, I worked in our college dining room.

Sometimes I think, 'Oh, I wish I just had a nice job where you're getting a salary.' Just sometimes.

We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we've raised.

I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.