Always Quote by Romola Garai

I got a B in GCSE drama!

— Finn Cole

I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I…

— Kiki Dee

I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and…

— Emma Rigby

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to…

— Bernard Williams

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

— Jonathan Kozol

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd…

— Reid Hoffman

I was lined up to do this honors degree course in biology, of all things, for no better reason than I got high marks…

— Matt Frewer

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I…

— Colin Baker

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art because it was the only drama school the social worker had ever heard of. Luckily,…

— Richard McCabe