"It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult"
- Wentworth Miller
About this Quote
In this quote, Wentworth Miller assesses his upbringing and the pressure he felt to attend college. Growing up with both of his moms and dads being teachers, higher education was seen as the norm and expected of him. While his parents were supportive of his interest in acting, they still had high expectations for his scholastic success. This state of mind of participating in a distinguished university or nothing at all made it challenging for Miller to transition back to pursuing acting after college. It highlights the struggle of stabilizing individual passions with social expectations and the difficulty of deviating from an established course.
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