Robert Zemeckis Quotes

I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.

I grew up working class in Atlanta.

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

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

A little bit about my family: We didn't really come from much, and we didn't take family trips to California, so my first trip to California was actually my first day of school.

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

I was an only child. Both my parents came from working-class families in Hackney, east London.

My dad was born with no money.

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 was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

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'm from a big family; I have four younger siblings. My parents are still happily married together. I grew up moving around a lot, and my family was certainly not affluent.

I come from a very working-class background.

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

I come from a very working-class background.

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

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

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

My dad grew up really poor in Mississippi. I paid attention to that because I thought that's a healthier thing to pay attention to than, like, some statue of a great-great-great grandfather who has no connection to my life.

I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.

Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their struggles.

I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.

I was raised in inner-city Liverpool, the first in my family to go to university.

When I used to watch TV when I was young, it was a fun space which helped us relax and de-stress.