Samantha Fox Quotes

I am not posh. I went to a comprehensive school.

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.

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

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.

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

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

I didn't come from a council estate like a lot of the lads do.

We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.

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.

I'm proud of my middle-class background because that's how I've grown up. I have my values and sensibilities.

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 come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

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

I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

I come from a very working-class background.

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

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

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

I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.

I was well brought up, my parents are still together. I lived in a council estate, but I don't anymore; I saw my parents buy a nice house and move me to a nice area.

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

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