Margo Price Quotes

When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester.

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

Long time ago, I was going to be a New York cop, then got involved with this girl who was into acting, then got bit by the acting bug myself.

I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, 'Heads - Miami, tails - California. I was in my mid-20s and came out here with no training. Acting wasn't even in my mind.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

If I hadn't have fallen pregnant by my then-boyfriend, I would probably still be living in London doing the celebrity scene.

I only went to college for one semester, community college outside of Dallas. I got to the end of that and said, 'I'm not doing this anymore,' and moved to L.A. and landed a job.

I don't have even a moment of regret for leaving my career behind.

When I was 17, I went to Brigham Young University. That was the first time I had set foot in a classroom.

After working as a charter boat captain and dive master in the Caribbean for a number of years, I decided it was time for a change.

I went to Carnegie Mellon for a year and a month or two, and then I dropped out because I got a movie. I didn't anticipate ever leaving school - I was a really serious drama student - and then that happened, and my life sort of took a turn.

I was very successful, and I graduated with honors. And then I called my dad, who still lives in London, and I said, 'Dad, thanks for college, but I'm going to go act now.' It didn't go over very well.

In June 2007, I finished up school for the year. I didn't know it at the time, but I was done with college forever. By the end of the summer, I had dropped out and would not return.

I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism.

I didn't graduate. I was doing theater in Michigan the summer after my junior year and just moved on to New York.