Working Class Quotes

264 quotes by 208 authors

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog. — Jay Baruchel
Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family… — Melanie Brown
Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will… — Sean Bean
In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy. — Nigel Cole
In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to… — Nigel Cole
I remember when I took the role on E.R., I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls,… — Linda Cardellini
I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite… — Michelle Dockery
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… — Michelle Forbes
I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I… — Billy Gardell
I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced.… — Dick Gephardt
I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass. — Elton John
I make films about working class people. — Taylor Hackford
I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner. — Tom Jones
I'm a working class lad. — Rob James-Collier
I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing -… — Gary Kemp
I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the core of my… — Geoff Dyer
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,… — Stephen Daldry
At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes… — Leon Jouhaux
When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family, not specifically educated,… — Olivier Martinez
Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music. — Yelawolf

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