I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale, they thought it was a lock to pick.

- Mitch Leigh

I played varsity soccer at Yale and continued playing at Cambridge.

- Sarah Parcak

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

- Shia LaBeouf

I got accepted at Yale but never went.

- Shia LaBeouf

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

- Sean Hannity

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

- Richard Foreman

So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.

- Richard Foreman

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

- Robert T. Bakker

I applied to Yale, and I got in.

- Mitch Leigh

When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.

- Mitch Leigh

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of school and said, 'OK, it will be Shakespeare,' and it was like, 'Or, it will be commercials and soaps.'

- Kristen Connolly

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

- John Knowles

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

- Dianne Wiest

When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.

- Courtney B. Vance

I am a Yale Law School graduate.

- Cory Booker

With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make it so that you could do it. It was magical. I had a lot going on, as you do when you're 17, and didn't necessarily capitalize on all of it, but it made me see possibility in a way that I hadn't before.

- Bellamy Young

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

- Albert Maltz

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

- Albert Maltz

You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.

- Al Jourgensen