Joe Gilgun Quotes

As successful as it may appear I am, I don't really feel that. It's like, you know you've achieved some level of success, and you know what you've done, and yet you still feel you have more to do and more to prove.

Practically everyone I know now is from a middle- or upper-middle-class background, and I no longer have the huge chip on my shoulder that I carried around for so many years. I'm not sure it comes out much in the work, but coming from this kind of background is absolutely central to my identity, to my sense of who I am.

The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.

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

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

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

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you're still a lowlife.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

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

In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.

My deepest challenge has been an internal one. It's allowing success to take over by focusing on how many Twitter followers I have or what people are saying about me online, or just feeling like no matter how much success I get, it's not enough.

To this day, I haven't felt like I've made it. I'm waiting for them to pull the rug out from under me. I kind of feel like George Plimpton; I'm just experiencing this whole business with the really talented people.

It feels like my hard work has paid off, but at the same time, I still have the impostor, you know, syndrome. I still feel like I'm going to wake up, and everybody's going to see me for the hack I am.

I felt like there were so many talented people who should be getting what I have.

Not that I am hugely working class, but in the U.K. I'm always perceived, casting-wise, as being working class.

I think that's always something when you're working class, when you're aware of things that you haven't had; there are moments when you question yourself, definitely.

I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.

I understand that feeling of insecurity, like you're not good enough as you are, and you need to change.

I believed what people said, that I don't deserve to be a leader because of the way I look. That I don't deserve to be popular, that I don't deserve to be loved. I'm not intelligent.

I am the typical British aspiring working class. To be called 'elite' by people who have inherited wealth and run hedge funds or worked in the City of London, I don't criticise them for it, but the idea is frankly laughable. Just ridiculous.

One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.

I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income.

I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self-esteem.