Timothy Spall Quotes

We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

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

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.

England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.

On the battlefield, there is no distinction between upper and lower class.

I'm not interested in classes ... Far be it from me to foster inferiority complexes among the workers by trying to make them think they belong to some special class.

People assume that I'm an aristocrat, but I don't really feel part of any class.

We have a myth of the classless society. You won't hear an American politician apart from Bernie Sanders talk about the working class. We are all middle class, apparently.

So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human.

Golf has been the sport of the social elite, with lawyers and doctors. But I have never been embarrassed by the looks I've been given by others. I have sometimes been looked at with condescension and it still happens now, but I know how to deal with it - I know whose opinions count.

Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image.

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

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 don't believe in social equality, and they know it.