Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.

I simply loved education. I mean, I always loved acting as well. It really was a major passion for me, but one I felt I could only fully explore once I'd completed my degree.

I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

My mother got married at a very young age, but she did her B.A., B. Ed and M.A. after marriage.

I'm excited to go study and read and immerse myself in something.

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

Continue to study and learn new skills.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

If my idea was just to maintain a certain lifestyle, there would be no need to get a Ph.D. But I do care very deeply about the idea side as well.

I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'

My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me.

Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.

Always educate yourself.

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.