Eddie Marsan Quotes

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded as a defect, a limitation of my imagination. I could put myself in their position, but not politically. The idea of writing a story or a book about somebody completely devoid of appreciation of anything I care about is completely foreign to me.

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? … Was it because our predecessors were thick? Does anybody really think that they didn't get what we had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? Of course not. It was because there was no platform upon which they could stand.

Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends us here and pays our way.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

The people with high school degrees and the people who have college degrees are living in two different Americas.

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.

I come from humble beginnings myself.

We concentrate too much on ethnic diversity and not enough on class. It's dead important to represent loads of different cultures. But what the BBC doesn't do enough of is thinking about getting people from more working-class backgrounds.

I come from a working class background, it wasn't easy for me at all, but I worked hard.

I needed to prove to myself - to the manager, to the fans, even to my mum and dad - that I'm not just an average player.

I've always felt that I had to go out and prove myself in every fight.

People have to recognise I'm a working-class lad. Forget what I've done and where I've been. I'm a working-class lad. I've come from nothing and I've not forgotten that.

Guys are more apt to test me than they are to test a Charles Barkley. I think I have to go out and prove myself all the time, and that's fine, because I've had to prove myself my whole life.

Look, I was a water carrier, I don't reject my image. I didn't have the pretension to think that I could change a match by myself.