Michael McIntyre Quotes

In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

I went to a very posh school, I had a very privileged upbringing with parents who were incredibly loving and brilliant. I've never tried to hide that; I'm not going to change my accent or talk in a different way.

I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.

My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

I'm not a trust-fund type.

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

My family, we're all WASPs.

This is an impressive crowd -- the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite; I call you my base.

I don't remember going to school with anyone who had a Mercedes dealership.

I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for some years head of pediatrics at Provident, the nation's oldest black hospital. My mother was a social worker who left her job when she married, and throughout my childhood, she was a full-time wife, mother, and socialite.

The Trudie Styler that is spoken of is extremely privileged in life and feels that privilege.

My parents were decent, aspirant first-generation middle class. They read 'Reader's Digest', listened to classical music; my grandparents had a bust of Stalin on the mantelpiece. The kids of that generation were terrified of being below par, class-wise.

I come from a very affluent family. I have been educated in one of the finest institutions of the world. Money was never a factor in my life: by the grace of God, I was blessed with a golden spoon.

I grew up upper middle class.

I am from Michigan; I am from Grosse Pointe. I was upper class growing up there.

I'm fortunate enough that my dad was well-off, my family was well-off, so we're able to go to private schools and stuff like that.

My parents weren't cultured people.

Only people who are well off can be - complex.