Robert Lepage Quotes

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

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.

I was well brought up, my parents are still together. I lived in a council estate, but I don't anymore; I saw my parents buy a nice house and move me to a nice area.

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

If you are poor today, you will always be poor. Only the rich now acquire riches.

The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other social strata. When I did, I found them colossally vital.

I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.

I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.