Top 138 Nyu Quotes & Sayings

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

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

I moved to New York in 1989 and went to study at NYU.

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.

I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.

I was going to be a chemical engineer - I was a science nerd - that was the plan. I secretly applied to USC and NYU and got a scholarship to go to NYU based on a dumb animated short I made. It was a huge shock to me and my family.

I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.

I figured out that I was interested in acting while at NYU.

I ended up going to NYU for film school - close to Pennsylvania - but we talked about what if I went to UCLA or USC, and my mom's whole world was caving in.

Being an actress wasn't realistic. I knew that I was going to have to do it in a way that would speak to my parents. So I went to NYU Tisch School of the Arts for theater, and I studied at the conservatory.

For me, I went to NYU, and at that point, it was 1995, and everyone wanted to be Tarantino. I was writing these stupid comedies, and I felt lost.

I haven't smoked marijuana since I was at NYU.

Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there.

I wanted to go to NYU because I thought that was my best path to glory. I figured it was safer to move into the acting world in New York while I was living in a dorm.

I wanted to be a director and comedian and my plan was to go to NYU. I wanted to be in UCB.

Professionally, I haven't done any film in 2013 as I was studying in NYU.

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.

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.

I went to NYU thinking I was going to make a 'Die Hard' sequel, or maybe action and genre films for the studios, but I ended up falling in love with personal cinema.

I went to NYU undergrad, then went to AFI for grad school.

I actually didn't finish NYU. I would have, but I was lucky enough to get my foot in the door before I graduated.

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.

I went to NYU to study liberal arts.

I went to college at NYU for acting, since acting was my dream from very young. I did a lot of hip-hop courses while I was there. I helped co-write a hip-hop production for the main stage of NYU, but I never touched rap.

I was teaching magic at NYU when I was 16.

I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.

'Victoria Para Chino,' my 2nd-year film at NYU, gave birth to 'Sin Nombre.'

I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday.

I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday

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.

I went to NYU completely with the idea I wanted to be the next David Copperfield.

I moved to New York City in 1997 as an undergraduate transfer student at NYU.

My parents tried to convince me that school won't always be there, but auditions will. I said, 'Really? Are they tearing down NYU?'

I was a dance major at NYU, but it wasn't working out. I had friends in the drama department, so I switched.

I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.

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.

I had studied at the NYU School of the Arts under Lloyd Richards, who also worked with the Negro Ensemble Company.

While I was at NYU, I did a play at The Public called 'The Forbidden City,' where I went in as an understudy and got my Equity card.

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.

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.

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!

I always wanted to be a composer, and I sort of went in to NYU as pre-med because I just thought, 'Well... who actually becomes a composer?'

The best decision I made at NYU was joining the Shakespeare ensemble. It literally led to everything I did after that. It gave me the kind of confidence I really needed.

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.

I always did plays, and when I went to NYU - and I didn't go to Tisch, the theater school, because I was like, 'Well, acting's not realistic. You can't make a career out of it.' So I just studied general studies and humanities at NYU, but I was doing plays while I was there. So I was sort of cheating.

NYU was my comfort zone.

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.

I took Pascal, and I was terrible. And then, when I went to NYU, I minored in computer science. I just couldn't code. I just didn't have the patience for it.

I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife

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.

I took a clown class at NYU - that's where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend.

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.

I was the first person in NYU Medical Center's history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis.

My time at Barnard was fun but stressful. I transferred there from the acting conservatory at NYU, and my Rolling Around On the Floor Pretending to Be a Lion classes didn't translate into many academic credits.

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.

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

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.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU for film school.