Aaron Stanford Quotes

I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my career has developed.

I've never felt like a pop star - this is a nine-to-five sort of gig. It comes from working in the factories, that world. You don't forget it.

My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone who's busy and has too many children, like my mother.

I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.

I was raised as a real worker: you know, you get out and get a real job.

I worked a lot of non-acting jobs for a really long time. They ranged from auto mechanic to landscaper to manual labor to working in a factory that made airplane parts. I even tried to go to school as a paramedic and ended up being an orderly in a hospital.

Physical labor, manual labor - if you can stay close to those folks, there's always plenty to write about, 'cause their issues are real issues.

It's bred in me that I only see real work as getting stuck in and getting your hands dirty.

I love playing the common man.

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

My own father held down two jobs, barely affording the little rented house I grew up in. My dad worked hard, lifted heavy things, and got his hands dirty. The only soap we had at my house was Lava. Heck, I was in college before I found out it wasn't supposed to hurt to take a shower.

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.

I'm not from an acting family. I'm from a working class family.

Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.

All of the guys I know from Jersey held onto this feeling of, 'We're always just working.'

People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture.

My dad's a worker, an electrician, a bog standard job. Nothing glamorous like a footballer, but yet he still provided me with what I needed.

I worked in factories, slaughterhouses, as an upholsterer. I did demolition work, was a postman, was a tiler, a plasterer. I even sold double-glazing door-to-door. But I always dreamed of being a world champion, first of all as a boxer.