Being Quote by Rob Beckett

When I finished my degree at Oxford, I went and acted for a bit. And I was appalling. And with each part, I thought,…

— Hugh Grant

I'm one of the people that's managed to rise above my class, that's the working- class dream, the whole Lennon-esque, John Osborne kind of…

— Mick Hucknall

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

Honours seem to be the nature of British life. It's horrible. Maybe I'm mad, but the older I get, the less I want to…

— Tony Harrison

I always considered myself working class, because I was brought up on a council estate. I still do, really. I mean, I might have…

— Mark Bonnar

I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.

— Danny Dyer

If you're doing a job, and you secretly want to do a different job, you start to blame the job. I was blaming the…

— Greg Davies

Not that I am hugely working class, but in the U.K. I'm always perceived, casting-wise, as being working class.

— Ralph Ineson

After I finished university, I was gigging as a comedian in London as well as temping for Morgan Stanley during the day.

— Nick Mohammed

I applied to Oxford in the '80s and was invited to an interview. It was like a scene from 'Billy Elliot.' People were making…

— Fiona Hill

There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if you have…

— Kate Reardon

Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.

— Arundhati Roy