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The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

I do regret that when I went to college, I didn't have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in musical theater, so it was a very directed toward what I was doing. I wish that I had expanded my horizons a little bit.

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.