Eddie Marsan Quotes

The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.

I feel like decades ago it was either you're black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

I've grown up in a very diverse background.

I feel like I get a variety of people in my crowd. Because of that, there's a nice amount of Hispanic people and Latinos that come to my shows. There's also a really big amount of Black and White people.

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

'Yellow Face' marks my summation of multiculturalism.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

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.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

I'm looking forward to the time when we all look like Polynesians.

The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.

I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.