Eddie Redmayne Quotes

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.

I've never felt entirely comfortable in high society. I'm more comfortable talking to the bar staff than the super-rich. I don't really get what makes them tick.

I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.

I think poshness is very funny! But I think it's also delightful. There's something wonderful and very innocent about it, particularly with the Edwardians.

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

The Social Register is a nice address book for some people, but that's about it.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.

I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.

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

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is.

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.

Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.

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!'

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don't feel like an oligarch.

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

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.