You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'
I really want to go to Harvard; it's just a matter of timing.
I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.
I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.
I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.
I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.
When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world.
There's probably people that go to Harvard and say, 'Listen, I went to Harvard. I got a great education, and I can't find a job, or I didn't become the success that I could have been.' Sure, I mean, you probably have that at every major university.
I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.