Rita Wilson

I modeled.

I just never stopped working.

But in my head, that wasn't really a job.

That was sort of like, this is what you can do right now.

But a job to me was...

being a teacher, which was what my sister was going to be.

And I didn't really think that you could make a living being an actor.

And yet I was doing that.

So I applied to community college, which back then was called junior college.

And those were only for two years.

And then you would take that two-year degree and then go on to a college to finish and get your baccalaureate.

bachelor's degree.

So I went to the first junior college and I was taking general ed classes.

And this one junior college was kind of far away and it was a long commute.

So I decided to transfer to one that was closer.

And I was taking all my general ed classes, you know, English and history and just the same things that you would have taken in high school.

I kept having to

retake a class over and over again because I couldn't be there and I would miss classes because I was working, but I also had to support myself.

And so it was always a conflict of

being able to, do I take the job or go and do this class?