I went to UCLA for a year and a quarter. There were too many students at UCLA interested in what I was interested in, and they couldn't accommodate all of us. I wasn't allowed to take voice or dance, only theater and acting. So I saved my money and, at 19, moved to New York.

Casey Nicholaw

I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.

Aaron Koblin

Vacation UCLA Take

My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.

Adam DeVine

Family Year UCLA

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.

Adam F. Goldberg

Mom World Whole

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

War Men Very

I have a B.A. from UCLA. In ethnic studies.

Ali Wong

UCLA T Studies

And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that.

Amber Tamblyn

God Use Us

The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

Andrea M. Ghez

World Which Us

When I first came to Southern California I enrolled at UCLA in pre-med. My fathers a doctor. But the sight of blood turns me off, so I began doing television commercials.

Barbi Benton

Vision UCLA Turns

I was studying pre-med at UCLA when I decided show business was for me, and the best way to make it was in music. I had just one problem. I was tone deaf.

Barbi Benton

Music Business Yin

I was also dating someone from UCLA and also I had another suitor, Jimmy Caan. So it was between my college boyfriend, Jimmy Caan and Hef. And Hef won. Within a few months, we were exclusive.

Barbi Benton

Won Within Wit

When I first met Hef, I was a co-ed at UCLA.

Barbi Benton

UCLA T Met

UCLA takes care of me. I'm a Bruin for life.

Baron Davis

Life Car UCLA

It was always like there was no doubt in anybody's mind that I was going to UCLA, so once UCLA started recruiting me, everybody started pushing me there.

Baron Davis

Art Ways Way

UCLA is my heart, man. Crossroads changed my life, UCLA made my life.

Baron Davis

Life Change Art

I used to always brick. I used to always do like UCLA or Indiana late game, on the road, and I'll always miss.

Baron Davis

Ways Way Used

I could see myself coaching at the high school level, but I'd really love to coach at UCLA. That would be a dream for me.

Baron Davis

Love Would UCLA

I love UCLA and the people at UCLA. Everybody is great.

Ben Howland

Love Great Very

I will never leave UCLA and will stay at UCLA as long they will have me.

Ben Howland

Will UCLA T

UCLA will always be involved with great players, and those players always draw scrutiny. That's just the way it is.

Ben Howland

Great Wit Will

One of the very best things about being a coach or student-athlete at UCLA is if you need medical attention, you won't find any better place in the country than at the incomparable UCLA Medical Center.

Ben Howland

Medical You Won

At UCLA, there will always be high expectations. That's why you want to play here or coach here.

Ben Howland

There are things that I will think about, that I have been a part of because I was the head coach at UCLA, that I will always cherish. I grew up loving this program as a kid.

Ben Howland

This is UCLA. The expectations are higher here than anywhere. The amount of success both in terms of championships and wins as well as success off the floor has been second to none in college basketball. I knew that when I took this job. I know the expectation level, and no one has higher expectations than I do.

Ben Howland

That's why I'm here at UCLA - to help them win a national championship.

Ben Howland

There's no question we made a couple mistakes there at UCLA at the very end.

Ben Howland

I get to work with the best and the brightest at UCLA. We get to recruit great kids, and that makes coaching very fun for me.

Ben Howland

It's very painful to lose, and it's a very difficult process to go through, especially at a place like UCLA where the standards are very high.

Ben Howland

You're not going to see Bill Walton or Kareem coming in every three years. Those days are over. That's what makes the job so difficult. But it's the dream job for anyone who has spent a career in coaching and has a sense of what UCLA means.

Ben Howland

It still comes down to attracting players, and UCLA can attract players as well as any place in the country.

Ben Howland

Both my children have degrees from UCLA.

Ben Howland

My best girlfriends are the girls I went to college with at UCLA.

Beth Behrs

I'm a big fan of Coach Dorrell. I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.

Brian Bosworth

I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends.

Burt Ward

I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'

Carol Burnett

I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts.

Carol Burnett

When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had to take this acting class as a theater arts major. I had to do this scene in a one-act comedy. I just said this line, and then... this laugh happened. I thought, 'Whoa. This is a really good feeling. What have I been missing?'

Carol Burnett

I went to UCLA for a year and a quarter. There were too many students at UCLA interested in what I was interested in, and they couldn't accommodate all of us. I wasn't allowed to take voice or dance, only theater and acting. So I saved my money and, at 19, moved to New York.

Casey Nicholaw

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

When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

Danica McKellar

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

By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

Danica McKellar

Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.

Daphne Zuniga

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.

Darren Star

I've been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing room, and I jumped at the opportunity.

Darren Star

I did go to UCLA for art, but the other option was going to Sarah Lawrence and doing creative writing all the way. So that is part of the reason I love to read so much.

Emily Ratajkowski

I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.

Fiona Gubelmann

I have permanent damage to my facial nerves. I went to the UCLA Movement Disorder Clinic, and after two years of tests and constant monitoring they have finally found the right medication that keeps the spasms under control.

Gabrielle Carteris

In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Gail Devers

With 'Love & Basketball,' I played ball my whole life and did track at UCLA. So, I'm an athlete. And it was very important for me to get it right. I started with casting: As an athlete, there's nothing worse for me than watching a sports movie and the woman that they hire can't run or can't shoot. It sets women's sports back years.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

There's a great deal of women in film school. I was not the only woman in my class at UCLA. When I went through the Sundance program, it was half women and half men.

Gina Prince-Bythewood