I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!
All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.
'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.
I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.
Back in the days before the Internet, there was no place to put a short film, so Mike Gribble and Spike Decker had this festival of animation. My student films got selected.
I had done student films for the School Of Visual Arts and for NYU and all these schools in New York, so those were my first film experiences, but they were student films, so I guess they don't really count.
I ended up getting to do a lot of student films - no budget: somebody just wrangled up a camera and went to shoot stuff - and it was fun. It was great.
Student loans, Social Security, and Medicare make a difference in the lives of working families every day, and the conversation that should be taking place is how we can save these programs, not weaken them.
I've been able to pay the bills. I've been able to pay off my student loans. I was a homeowner before anything happened in the larger public eye.
I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.
I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.
If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.
What I would like to do... once I take care of all my kids' student loans, is buy a red 1965 Mustang and fully restore it.
Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it.
My parents are not of this world. I've had to work multiple jobs, been in a position where I cannot pay off student loans.
The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
I had the opportunity to do a movie with Roger Daltrey of The Who. In the movie, I played a guitar student. Since I had to learn how to play somewhat for the movie, I was introduced to the guitar.
I'm a student of the movies. I'm a student of all media. This is what I do, and I like to immerse myself in what's current and what's topical. And I find that I'm drawn to those things.
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
