Anne Hathaway Quotes

I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.

I'm a proud product of the American middle class.

Growing up, I lived a moderate lifestyle with my family.

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

No doubt, my parents were hardworking, you know, middle class. My father, when my sister and I were younger, he was a parking attendant at the old Dunes Hotel and Casino. My mother was a bookkeeper in a title company.

We were always a middle-class family who took pride in our little set-up.

I came from a middle-class family. My father was a professor in a medical college, and my mother was a schoolteacher. We led a good life but we did not have much money.

My mother was from a middle-class background.

The middle class is both real and aspirational. And I want to make sure that it remains strong and it gives people a sense of security and confidence and optimism about their futures.

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 came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

My mom was a model. She met my dad when he was building the Ritz-Carlton in Colorado and she was modeling there. Although we were very blessed, my parents never wanted us to believe we didn't have to work. They didn't want us to think that our situation would get us through life.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.

I live way below my means.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.

Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.

We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich.

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

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.