Always Quote by Simon Helberg

I went to NYU, and my parents had a rule that I needed to major in something other than acting if I wanted to…

— Billie Lourd

You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.

— Adam Jacobs

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…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.'

— Gavin Creel

If you're at uni just because your parents have said so... There's a lot of success stories of people who have dropped out.

— Eniola Aluko

I ended up going to NYU for film school - close to Pennsylvania - but we talked about what if I went to UCLA…

— Adam F. Goldberg

One of the things I learned in college is that if you're going to be late for an audition, don't go.

— Nina Tassler

I always wanted to see my parents without any stress and accordingly knocked every audition for an opportunity.

— Vijay Deverakonda

I auditioned for all the NYU short films.

— Rachel Sennott

At the end of the day I still have to go in there and audition like everybody else. Theyre not going to hire you…

— Katie Cassidy

Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got…

— Robert De Niro

When I was a senior in high school, I worked at a theater where they hired New York actors. And they told me about…

— Jonathan Groff