Laura Carmichael Quotes

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

The bourgeois are other people.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots of fun, aren't they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!'

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

Class is more important than a game.

In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that.

We know that the British public are obsessed with class.

Class is really interesting to me, maybe because I'm from England where there is a pretty hideous, deep-rooted obsession with class. I don't like the obsession with class, but it certainly interests me.

I don't think old posh is as intimidating as new posh, is it?

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.

It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.