Working-Class Quotes

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
Gary Oldman

Family, Money, Anger

I'm a working-class person, working with class.
Karl Lagerfeld

Person, Working, Class

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.
Annie Lennox

Job, Worry, Next

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'
Tom Hiddleston

Life, Work, Strong

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.
Martin Scorsese

School, Parents, Books

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
Michael Caine

Person, Made, American

I come from a very working-class background.
Clive Owen

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
Ben Affleck

Dad, Mother, School

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.
Christa McAuliffe

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Tradition, Seeking, Spent

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Men, Strength, Kid

I came from a real working-class show business family.
Sally Field

Family, Business, Real

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.
Sally Field

Family, Great, Business

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
Patrick J. Kennedy

Age, Today, Children

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
Andrea Arnold

Family, Write, Guess

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
Martin Amis

Hero, America, Traitor

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
Olivier Martinez

Family, Born, Paris

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.
Denise Mina

Parents, Both, Position

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.
Michael Gove

Leadership, Same, Study

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
Tom Jones

Father, Background, Coal

The working-class aspirations are worse now than when I was a kid - and it was pretty bad when I was a kid. Reality TV means they are being told they are no longer a working class, they're an underclass. Young lassies want to be Jordan or Jade, but very few aspire to be the next Germaine Greer.
Peter Mullan

Bad, Reality, Pretty

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.
Stephen Daldry

Life, Work, Movies

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
Constance Baker Motley

Father, American, Distance

As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it.
Brian Cox

Home, Movies, Thought

My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.
Ezra Koenig

Education, Dad, College

Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.
Frank Rich

Money, After, Between

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
R. A. Salvatore

Family, Kid, England

I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
Samantha Fox

School, Girl, Kids

I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.
Michelle Forbes

Mom, True, Someone

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.
Paul Merton

Rich, Call, Allowed

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