Neve McIntosh Quotes

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

I come from a very working-class background.

My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

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

Football is generally a working-class sport, and because of the fact I went to private school and was brought up slightly differently, people think that makes me a different person.

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

There is the idea that there's a section of society, these working-class tradesmen, are driving around and they all think the same. Everybody who has tools in their vehicle have all the exact same thoughts: it's incredibly patronising isn't it?

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.

There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing.

In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

I didn't come from a council estate like a lot of the lads do.

There's this narrative that is entrenched in some of the professions that there's this mysterious thing called 'socioeconomic status' that is immutably correlated with health. And it isn't.

I come from a lower-middle-class family and used to stay in a housing board colony.

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

My parents were decent, aspirant first-generation middle class. They read 'Reader's Digest', listened to classical music; my grandparents had a bust of Stalin on the mantelpiece. The kids of that generation were terrified of being below par, class-wise.

I didn't know we'd been tagged as posh. I went to a state school in London, so maybe people think I have a posh voice and that's where it comes from?

People have to recognise I'm a working-class lad. Forget what I've done and where I've been. I'm a working-class lad. I've come from nothing and I've not forgotten that.

You can't kid the public. When they see me they see I'm just a kid off a council estate - no more, no less.

I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school.

Working class people vote Tory because they think it makes them look a bit posh.

I come from a blue collar background.

Working-class actors have no identity. Our identity is playing every single poor person on 'Game Of Thrones.'

I grew up in the middle class.