Catherine Reitman Quotes

I think I was born into an incredibly fortunate environment.

I wouldn't say I grew up with a silver spoon. Yeah, I was very fortunate. I have a great family.

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.

You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

It's easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a 'do what you love and love what you do' philosophy when they are wealthy enough to work hard only voluntarily, and when their jobs grant them status.

I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fostered or adopted.

I've been very lucky. I come from a very close family.

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.

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.

There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'

It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the good fortune I've had in having a giving and loving family.

I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents.

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

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 was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy; my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.

People say law but they mean wealth.

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

I didn't have a lot of the advantages Donald Trump had, but I had the most important ones you can get, which are loving parents who cared about me and helped me develop a sense of self.