Amy Ryan Quotes

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 grew up working class in Atlanta.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

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

I come from a very working-class background.

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.

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.

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.

When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.

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

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

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

In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.

I come from the lower middle class, originally. We didn't have anything.

I'm not part of a middle-class establishment. I'm working class, and I grew up in a council house.

I come from a lower-middle-class family and used to stay in a housing board colony.

I come from a middle-class family in Gwalior.

I came from the most humble side of society, and I know what it's like to be poor, really poor, and I was brought up in the '60s and '70s very poor, and I'm very happy flying the flag for the working man.

The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing it's very, very hard.

I think Ant and I were ambitious because of where we come from. Both of us are from working-class families on council estates in Newcastle.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

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.