Tony Robinson Quotes

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

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

I was born in 1943 and raised in the Bronx, in a high rise apartment complex known as Parkchester, the only child of Max, an accountant who worked in the garment district in Manhattan, and Rose, an elementary school teacher.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

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

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

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.

When I was a kid, our family was not that rich.

I grew up on Chicago's South Side in a working-poor family, so I watched everything on television. It was like my window on the world. But we also went to the movies pretty regularly - mostly on Tuesdays, because that was Ladies Night, and my mom could get in for free.

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 in St Louis, just with my mom.

My mother was from a middle-class background.

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.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

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

When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

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.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.

I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

I grew up as an only child.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

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.