Lady Colin Campbell Quotes

I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.

I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in Putney, which is pretty rough.

Most people were annoyed with my voice, I think, because I'm working-class, and that doesn't sound quite right on Radio 4.

I grew up working class in Atlanta.

But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.

Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.

In the modern world, it is not the poor and the oppressed who have led the great revolutions and/or carried out the worst deeds of violence; rather, it is militant vanguards from among the better educated and more moneyed circles of society.

If you're white working class, it's very easy to caricature the elites, and if you're elite, it's very easy to caricature the white working class.

I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I come from the lower middle class, originally. We didn't have anything.

There are a lot of communities within the Asian Pacific Islander umbrella that are predominantly more working-class or lower class, and those stories haven't been told yet, so my hope is that we see the gamut of perspectives.

My family wasn't involved in the college. They were more of just your 'white trash' kind of family. And so I have that kind of background, but I always kind of aspired to be something else, and I made a lot of different friends over the years that were passing through.

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

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

I'm not part of a middle-class establishment. I'm working class, and I grew up in a council house.

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

I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I grew up poor, and I grew up rich.

I come from blue collar. I'm very working class.

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?

That was my upbringing: you treat people with respect.

I can tell when I meet you, within three minutes, how you were raised. When I met Lady Gaga on the 'American Horror' set... beautifully brought up.

Discounting the ineffably repetitive homophobic barbs that I receive most days, Twitter trolls' most common gripe against me appears to be that I am 'posh.' Contrary to their unshakeable view, I was not born into the upstairs world.

I come from a blue collar background.

I grew up poor, black, and working class.