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.
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Related I came from Texas, I was studying theater at NYU, and I thought for sure that my lot in life would b... JAMES RODAY I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I st... UTKARSH AMBUDKAR Being an actress wasn't realistic. I knew that I was going to have to do it in a way that would ... GINA RODRIGUEZ Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - wa... GARRET DILLAHUNT When I was about 21 and just about to get out of college at NYU, Vietnam was raging, and I was a fru... BILLY CRYSTAL I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind... LOUIS C. K. I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife WOODY ALLEN I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line moni... LAUREN WORSHAM I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions ... BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I w... BILLY CRYSTAL I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays. CASEY WILSON I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I ma... DOUG LIMAN The great thing about NYU, and the reason I chose to go there, was the fact that they don't inhi... ROBERTO AGUIRE I wanted to go to NYU because I thought that was my best path to glory. I figured it was safer to mo... DANIELLE SCHNEIDER When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt... ALAN SHEARER I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, ... MAKO One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick ... TOMMY CHONG NYU was my comfort zone. AMY HECKERLING When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a... SUZANNE COLLINS I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday. ALEXIS BLEDEL I never felt that I was a leading-man type in high school. I was always the goofy guy who was gettin... JAMES MARSDEN I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first... SID BERNSTEIN When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four m... ELLEN GOODMAN One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known or... IAN FLEMING What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't car... COLIN FARRELL I had gone to work for 'Newsweek', left 'Newsweek' and went to work for 'Vanity ... FRANK DEFORD The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, fil... BILL HADER It was important for James to win the first bout and get off to a good start. RANDY REIDLER When I was playing James Bond, it was the best job in the world. I mean, it was hard work, all that ... ROGER MOORE I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school. ALEXA VEGA For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU... BLYTHE DANNER Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off ... CHARLOTTE RONSON My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to... DENNIS CROWLEY But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER I was the illegitimate child of the legitimate theater. I had no training. I came from downtown rock... ANNIE GOLDEN I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when ... TODD PHILLIPS I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, fr... NORMAN LLOYD 'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was ... MATT LEBLANC My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, ... ELLA EYRE The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rin... CONNOR FRANTA Taylor was named after James Taylor and claims that she knows all the James Taylor songs, and I'... CHARLIE PUTH I was raised with James Bond. I love James Bond movies. I would love to do a James Bond movie one da... DENIS VILLENEUVE There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry... CYNTHIA OZICK I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowaday... ANSEL ELGORT I'm a fan of James Frain's work, especially in 'True Blood.' He was so awesome in th... CHAD LINDBERG My very first role was with James Earl Jones on 'Gabriel's Fire' on TV. He drove a Chevy... LELAND ORSER 'Fast Food Nation' appeared as an article in 'Rolling Stone' before it was a book, s... ERIC SCHLOSSER I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was '... DAVID HASSELHOFF I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interva... DAMIAN LEWIS I love 'Donnie Brasco' and 'Days of Thunder,' so after I did 'The Skulls,' I... PAUL WALKER I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it wa... GARTH BROOKS I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed lik... CAREY MULLIGAN I took a clown class at NYU - that's where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best... CASEY WILSON I actually went to NYU for six months, had some family issues that kind of set me back, and I couldn... AJ LEE Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news ... DAVID MUIR I did 'Echo Beach,' a surfing drama that meant I was often topless. Next came 'Demons,... CHRISTIAN COOKE When I was a little girl, the only real form of entertainment I was exposed to was theater, being ra... KELLY STABLES The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It d... JIM LEE When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turne... KAREN FINERMAN My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 ye... TERRY PRATCHETT The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A... MALORIE BLACKMAN There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have gro... DANIEL CRAIG I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a spo... RAMON RODRIGUEZ Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth... IAN MCKELLEN Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker charac... BEYONCE KNOWLES James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole fi... WILL FERRELL My dad listened to a lot of James Taylor when I was growing up. We had a couple of his cassettes in ... JESSIE MUELLER I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetica... 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