困难的时候，社区大学也是一个选择。
1. Annette Bening
Before she began her career with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company, before she earned four Oscar nominations for films including “American Beauty” and “The Kids Are All Right,” before she married actor and director Warren Beatty, Annette Bening studied dramatic arts at San Diego Mesa College.
2. Arnold Schwarzenegger
If not for Santa Monica College, Arnold Schwarzenegger may have never become the Terminator. Or the 38th governor of California.
Schwarzenegger, a native of Austria and world champion bodybuilder, moved to the United States at age 21 in 1968 and trained at Gold’s Gym in Venice. Speaking little English, he began taking English as a Second Language classes at nearby Santa Monica College in the early 1970s.
3. George Lucas
George Lucas aspired to become a professional race car driver, but a near-fatal accident just after his high school graduation put an end to those dreams. He enrolled at Modesto Junior College instead, took classes in anthropology, sociology and literature, among others, and began shooting with an 8mm camera, which also included filming a few car races.
After transferring to the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Lucas became part of a young clique of film students known as The Dirty Dozen and later became good friends with fellow student filmmaker Steven Spielberg. In 1967, he was awarded a Warner Bros. scholarship to observe the making of “Finian’s Rainbow,” a film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Lucas and Coppola developed a strong friendship, and just two years later they formed a company called American Zoetrope. A short time later, however, Coppola went into the production of “The Godfather;” Lucas decided to create his own company, Lucasfilm Ltd.
4. Aaron Rodgers
At Butte College, Rodgers was the starting quarterback for a 2002 Roadrunners squad with a 10-1 record, a NorCal Conference championship and a No. 2 national ranking.
5. Tani Catil-Sakauye
California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye is a believer in California’s community colleges. The former Sacramento City College student who earned her associate degree in 1978 paid homage to her alma mater at the school’s 90th anniversary celebration, saying: “SCC is the place where you can start to make your dreams come true.”
6. Amy Tan
Like many college students, bestselling novelist Amy Tan worked a number of odd jobs while on her higher education journey. Switchboard operator. Carhop. Pizza maker. Bartender. Which is why her tuition-free years at San Jose City College were so valuable. Attending a community college “was a wonderful decision,” she once said. “Perhaps it was the only decision I could have made. I didn't have a lot of money, and I was putting myself through college.”
7. Octavia Butler
The late Octavia Estelle Butler, the first African American woman to gain popularity and critical acclaim as a science fiction writer, earned her associate of arts degree in 1968 from Pasadena City College before attending Cal State LA and UCLA.
8. Jessica Chastain
Raised by a single mother who struggled to make ends meet, Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain dropped out of high school because of too many absences before enrolling at Sacramento City College, where she joined the debate team and became involved with the drama program. It was at Sacramento City College that Chastain continued to pursue her love of acting.
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