Stephen Mangan Quotes

I cannot wait until the day I can go back to school... I've already picked my program: anthropology at Columbia. I will not get in, but a girl can dream.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.

I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.

Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts.

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

Education is very important to my parents and to me.

My mum and dad pushed me to work hard in my earlier years in education.

I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.

I kept on telling my parents school wasn't for me. And they were like, 'No you need to go university.'

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

School is very important to my family.

I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.