Accents Quote by Denise Mina

When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden,…

— Jack Davenport

I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.

— Maxine Peake

I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to…

— Greg Mottola

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…

— Michael Caine

I grew up poor with a very distinctive working-class accent. In England in the 1980s and 1990s this would have impeded my professional advancement.…

— Fiona Hill

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it…

— Martin Amis

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what…

— Blake Bailey

I think there's a tendency in England, when you look at the past, to either have upper middle class period drama with its own…

— Steven Knight

I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.

— Shahrukh Khan

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the…

— Tracey Ullman

Working-class actors have no identity. Our identity is playing every single poor person on 'Game Of Thrones.'

— Jessica Barden