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I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one. -- Jim Jarmusch
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. -- Russell Banks
I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up. -- Lady Gaga
My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them. -- Peter Facinelli
I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight. -- Danai Gurira
My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany. -- Blake Bailey
Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones. -- David Dinkins
Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college. I was not outspoken when I was younger and I hated being the center of attention. But I had a dream of being an actor. I went to NYU and studied theatre. I learned a craft. And began my career straight out of college. -- Peter Facinelli
I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife -- Woody Allen
I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore. -- Skeet Ulrich
I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday -- Alexis Bledel
I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school. -- Alexa Vega
Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can. -- Marin Hinkle
I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then. -- Michaela Conlin
I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays. -- Casey Wilson
I took a clown class at NYU - that's where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend. -- Casey Wilson
Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there. -- Charlotte Ronson
I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. -- Louis C. K.
My ex-wife was a philosophy major at NYU. Yeah, she and I used to have deep philosophical discussions where she would prove that I didn't exist. -- Woody Allen
I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom. -- Andre Holland
I went to NYU undergraduate, then for a Master's in English, and got a summer job at St. Vincent's. I was a ward clerk handling everything in an intensive care unit. -- Glen Mazzara
If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School. -- Jeff Cooper
For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored. -- Blythe Danner
I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA. -- James Franco
I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that. -- Billy Crystal
And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character. -- Elizabeth Olsen
I love singing! I was a musical theater girl in high school. We were always singing and dancing around, and just doing little community theaters and high school musicals. Then, when I got to NYU, I focused more on drama. -- Katie Lowes
When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor. I actually studied acting when I was at NYU, and I made a lot of television commercials - that's actually how I put myself through NYU and through college. -- Tom Ford
NYU Film School was the way to learn about film, to be exposed to film, to go to repertory houses, to be exposed to New York and see films. I would go to the library and see one, two or three movies a day. -- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
I was born in a suburb outside of Philadelphia called Lower Merion. After taking many leaves of absence, I just received my BA from NYU in Art History. I initially gravitated towards singing. Acting sort of sprang out of that as a means to participate in musicals. -- Gideon Glick
I just went to Times Square and the underground movies, sometimes three a day. I did get my education. But I really believed then, in 1966, they would not have allowed me to make any of the movies I made. Today, you could make a snuff movie at NYU and get an A. -- John Waters
My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington. -- Big Sean
I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard. -- Malcolm Gets
I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie. -- Todd Phillips
I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,' which means I got there at 8 A.M. and told people how much the tickets were for standing room. I was an NYU Medical School fake patient, to teach doctors how to talk to patients. -- Lauren Worsham
When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter for the local stories for NPR. Then I was a country-western DJ. I did data entry for a yearbook company. In my mid-20s I went back to grad school at NYU, and I specialized in playwriting. -- Suzanne Collins
I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds. -- Cecily von Ziegesar
There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring Julliard and NYU and Yale and hundreds of schools across the country graduate classes of trained actors, and in those classes are actors of color. So to say that there aren't enough actors of color is factually inaccurate. -- Andre Holland
My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to another bar. I lived that way when I was unemployed, when I was a snowboard instructor, and when I was at NYU. A lot of my personality is stuck in those five years, and I don't know if that's ever gonna change. -- Dennis Crowley
I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don't really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they'd be like, 'Go get that guy Gubler. He'll be in your student film.' I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films. -- Matthew Gray Gubler
I was teaching magic at NYU when I was 16. -- David Copperfield
I haven't smoked marijuana since I was at NYU, -- Bill de Blasio
You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU. -- Adam Jacobs
The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me. -- Sharon Olds
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. -- Nicole Holofcener
I moved to New York in '92 and got my graduate degree in acting from NYU - they have a great acting program. I graduated in '95. -- David Costabile
I learned on film at NYU. I was probably the last generation that was analog. Anyone who was a year younger than me, it was probably all digital. -- Colin Trevorrow
When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi. -- Todd Phillips
First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major. -- John Leguizamo
I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.' -- Harmony Korine
I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen. -- Ramon Rodriguez
I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental. -- John Searles
It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street! -- Jessica Hagedorn
I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career. -- Ilana Glazer
I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek' article about the emerging downtown club scene, and, well, that was it for NYU. I was off and running. -- James St. James

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