Gregory Nunn Quotes

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

Everybody is not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. There are only a very small percentage of those types of people, you know what I mean?

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

It is a sin to be poor.

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

The ability to take advantage of freedom and democracy is proportional to the size of your bank account.

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

Our country has become the land of opportunity to those born without inheritance.

Poor children fare worse than rich children on just about everything that social scientists measure.

Some men will be always able to pay more for their children's education than others; and that those children will, inevitably, win in the struggle of life.

In England, there is this tradition of the upper classes going to very expensive drama schools and then going on having careers. I knew that wasn't an option for me. My mother would never have been able to afford that.