Michelle Dockery Quotes

My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

Because I came from the working class, I still identify with them. I don't identify with the middle class.

I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am.

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.

Since I still think of myself as a middle class guy, people get to see that side of me in films like 'Middle Class Abbayi.'

We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.

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.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been doing for 40 years. I thought that was contemptible - what do they want to do, ghettoize the working class as a subject? Can you only write about your own class? I've written about royalty, am I not allowed to do 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.

I come from a very working-class background.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

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

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.

I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.

I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.

My parents came from working-class, small-peasant, farm-labourer backgrounds and had made the grade during the fascist years; my father came out of the army as a captain.

You can't kid the public. When they see me they see I'm just a kid off a council estate - no more, no less.

My mother was from a middle-class background.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.