Beyonce Knowles Quotes

I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can laugh at their troubles. They can enjoy sitcoms. For those who aren't quite so lucky, well, the irony might be lost on them.

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

I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.

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.

My kids are being raised in a much more affluent environment than was mine. My wife and I talk about that all the time because neither of us had this kind of experience.

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

I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

I love playing women at the far ends of the social scale. I've done it all my life; that's where my ability lies.

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

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.

Better educated than wealthy

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

When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

For two years, I'd lived in Silicon Valley, surrounded by other highly educated transplants with seemingly perfect lives. It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse.

I definitely had a gang influence with friends and family growing up in South Central, and people might think that Beverly Hills definitely shielded me from some problems. But in actuality, it only opened up a whole new can of worms.

My adopted parents were able to pay for me to go to a private school. So I had it better than most people.

I'm very lucky I went to a nice school and I live in a very lovely part of London.

Everybody is not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. There are only a very small percentage of those types of people, you know what I mean?

A lot of my friends, we all grew up sort of not very wealthy. And in England, whatever ends up being a negative, that's a positive.

Let's take Taylor Swift. She lives in a huge beautiful apartment; she gets limo-ed everywhere. She's not seeing what it means to live in New York.

Growing up in Middlesbrough I was taught to be resilient and competitive. My teachers made us believe that just because kids were at private school up the road, it didn't mean they were better than us.