Top 40 USC Quotes

I studied film studies at USC.

I grew up being a running back, so the guys I really liked to watch were running backs. I loved watching Reggie Bush at USC. It was unbelievable what he was able to do. Priest Holmes was another.

My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.

The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people’s perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world – to be accepted.

In the 1950s, my family first lived in West Los Angeles. Dad was studying architecture at USC and we didn’t have a lot of money. He’d buy crumbling fixer-uppers, make repairs and sell them for a small profit. Then we’d move on. My early childhood image of him is standing on a ladder and sanding the front door.

I went to USC in L.A. Part of me is a real West Coast kid. My parents had a house in Palm Springs, which I now have. I spend a lot of time there.

I think a lot of L.A. is something like USC – this incredible white culture living in the midst of color, and no obvious reaction to it at all. I mean, they have guards at the gate at USC – guards at the gate of a major university! And the guards chase young black boys away – I’ve seen it, chasing 8-year-old boys.

It’s a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.

To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don’t just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.

USC has really developed my love for the cinema.

I still talk with all my USC friends, all the time. They’re still going to be like brothers to me.

I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.

In high school, I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch, and once I graduated from business school at USC, I started a company with my partner and had a nine-to-seven job.

I went to USC. I wasn’t a rich kid or anything like that, so I had to get a scholarship. Went to USC; my first year, I took 26 units, so I got to have a nickname. Everyone goes, ‘There’s 26.’ So I had a nickname. Having a nickname is a good thing because then you start to get popular, and you keep that going.

I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn’t get into the film school. I was biding my time, hoping to be accepted to film school, and I ended up transferring to UCLA my sophomore year.

I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I was obsessed with conducting, and I was conducting as much as I could, and I was studying as much as I could. I went to USC; I got an undergrad degree in violin and a master’s degree in conducting.

Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress reliever. I don’t consider it a professional endeavor like acting or directing.

I was a piano performance major at USC. I left before I graduated because I realized at some point I wasn’t going to be a concert pianist and I was too attracted to popular music.

Now we’re here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one’s going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We’ll see what happens.

I don’t care about what people think about me that don’t know me. But the one thing that bothers me of all the places is the general perception was that I was a failure at USC as a head coach.

I think USC is not a glamour job. I think that’s an elite, elite job. Why? Within two hours of your campus you can get the best players in America, or as good as any.

I was a 2-year-old baby on something, but it’s not like I had lines. But I actually had my first lines when I was 4. And then I finished school, and I went to USC for their BFA program in acting.

I went to USC and got my first break writing for a kids’ show called ‘Pepper Ann.’

I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.

I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons… that’s the greatest thing.

At USC, when I studied film scoring my first year, one of my first friends that I met was Ryan Coogler. He was in the directing program at USC. He became one of my best friends at school.

Most of my freshman year at USC, I’d just been partying, and I had zero direction.

Attending USC has been such a great experience for me and has really helped prepare me for my next step in life.

I got a lot of my film education from sneaking into media labs at USC. I probably owe USC a lot of money.

I can’t stand USC. They get such media attention.

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.

I love Irvine. That’s my ‘hood. I went to USC and used to come home every weekend. It’s in my comfort zone.

I didn’t want to go to college, and my parents said, ‘Well, then you’d better get a job, because we’re not paying for you to drop out of school.’ So I delivered pizza near USC for a while. We had to wear khakis and a baseball hat with the logo on it, and I worked almost every day.

USC Film School always had a real sense of drama and lineage.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

My phone was not ringing very much at the time after USC, and that was a very humbling experience after being let go there and to go through that process. You start calling a lot of people that don’t call you back all of a sudden, and you realize things about people.

I teach at USC, and it’s obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don’t cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.