Quotes About Oxford

I applied to Oxford in the '80s and was invited to an interview. It was like a scene from 'Billy Elliot.' People were making fun of me for my accent and the way I was dressed. It was the most embarrassing, awful experience I had ever had in my life.

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

The fact is I never intended to be a chef. After Oxford University I had this weird idea of running a nightclub.

I was in the debating society at school, I was the president of the Oxford Union, and then I became an MP in the Nineties.

I'd fought in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, having left Oxford to do so.

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

I met my wife in Oxford, fell in love with her, and followed her to New York. I was an illegal there for the first few years, until we got married, so I ended up doing lots of interesting jobs, some for a few days, some for a few months.

My education started with Latin taught at home by a governess, I can't imagine why, and for some reason I attended the Infants Department of the Oxford High School for Girls before moving to the Dragon School at the dangerous age of 8 or so.

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!

What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.

At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.

When I finished my initial year at Oxford, I flew home to marry Kirby, who had been my girlfriend in college. We had met on a blind date.

Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.

Once I was asked to do celebrity rowing, where they taught people who had been to Oxford or Cambridge to row against each other. That sounded like too much hard work: really early mornings and having to be quite fit, which I'm not.

I had a great time at Oxford, got a wonderful, wonderful education there.

At the Oxford Union I'd never debated before but I gave it a go.

It's lovely going to Oxford, it's very difficult to film there as you're doing a period drama in a city which is very crowded.

I was brought up on a farm in Oxford but my parents always had a flat in London, and we'd go to pretty smart restaurants, so it's always seemed important to eat well.

You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'