Working-Class Quotes
70 quotes by 65 authors
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I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.
— Amy Ryan
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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
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I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
— Ken Livingstone
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You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.
— Jay Baruchel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
— Tom Jones
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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
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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
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's…
— Gail Collins
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I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't…
— Paloma Faith
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I came from a real working-class show business family.
— Sally Field
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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…
— Tom Hiddleston
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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…
— Patrick J. Kennedy
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It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
— Barbara Kruger
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I'm a working-class person, working with class.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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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
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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.
— Ken Livingstone
Who Wrote These Working-Class Quotes
65 authors contributed a total of 70 Working-Class Quotes, led by these top contributors: