Quotes by Nyu When it finally came my way and doors opened up for me to do it and to be on stage, it felt like a natural thing to try out. And it just so happened to speak to me. I really couldn't do what I needed to do in the most fulfilling way in Hayward, Calif., or in the Bay Area, that it required me to go off to NYU. Mahershala Ali nyudoorstrying Getting to St. Mary's College was a big deal for me because that essentially led to me getting to go to NYU. Mahershala Ali nyubigscollege My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all? So my grades weren't great, but I feel like, is there any other way that I could have gotten into NYU? I don't know. I think that it definitely worked in my favor in some ways. Mara Wilson nyuschoolthinking I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then. Michaela Conlin nyucitiesnew-york 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 nyuadviceschool After a short period of time in Pakistan, it's clear that drones are not a security solution. If you believe in drones, the original idea was to go after so-called high-value targets, which according to the NYU-Stanford study 2% of the people killed by drones are high-value targets - now, who are all the rest of the people? Well, it's a secret program, so therefore the CIA doesn't have to tell us anything, yet they claim that with each attack they're getting militants. Now we have people coming forward, saying, actually, no we're not terrorists. Robert Greenwald nyubelieveideas A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. Russell Banks nyucoupleyears 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 nyucommunityteaching I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore. Skeet Ulrich nyutechniqueuse 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 cheesynyuwriting 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 nyuphilosophicalphilosophy I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife Woody Allen nyuwifecheating«12
