Quotes by Ucla At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging. Adam Schiff ucla uc-berkeley texas The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA. Andrea M. Ghez telescopes ucla world My best girlfriends are the girls I went to college with at UCLA. Beth Behrs ucla girl college Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts. Bill Walton ucla growing-up basketball I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style. Brian Bosworth ucla football years I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends Burt Ward ucla weekend real No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class. Carol Burnett ucla writing art I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache. Christine Lakin ucla class kids I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2. Danica McKellar ucla opportunity years When I wrote Chuky script, I was a student at UCLA, an undergraduate and my biggest aspiration for it was that I would get my foot in a door somewhere, that I would get an agent or something and it was just beyond my wildest dreams that this big-time producer, David Kirschner. David Kirschner ucla dream doors Really, UCLA's a great place as well, but they don't have the kind of environment they have here. The fans here have a passion. Dick Vitale ucla passion fans Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it. Dori Berinstein ucla growing-up taken At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning. Hugh Nibley ucla knack learning It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA. Jackie Joyner-Kersee ucla games dream I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away. Jackie Joyner-Kersee ucla going-away years I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time. James Franco ucla acting years I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo. James Franco usc ucla students 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 ucla teaching years Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life. John Wooden career-change ucla life Discipline yourself, and others won't need to. John Wooden ucla discipline basketball 12»