Kate Moss Quotes

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

Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school.

I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.

Part of the creative journey for me was not to come up the conventional route. I didn't go through drama school. I chose not to. I came from a very working-class area, a child of Nigerian immigrants.

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.

We concentrate too much on ethnic diversity and not enough on class. It's dead important to represent loads of different cultures. But what the BBC doesn't do enough of is thinking about getting people from more working-class backgrounds.

I come from a working class background, it wasn't easy for me at all, but I worked hard.

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.

That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are.

I come from a blue collar background.

My parents climbed their way to the middle class.

I'm proud of my middle-class background because that's how I've grown up. I have my values and sensibilities.

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

I'm not that guy in the suit, speaking the Queen's English. I don't need to be. I've done enough. I can go on 'Newsnight' as me.

I think the country will get behind someone who comes from a working-class background, who truly epitomizes the American Dream.

You really have to prove yourself and prove your worth. I didn't come from family that had been here for generations and had all these connections.

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.

I grew up in the middle 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.

My dad was working class.

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

I still belong to a middle class family; middle class is a mindset than your financial status.

My father was a bricklayer, and my mother was a housewife. It was complicated, obviously, because of our humble origin, but thank God we were all focused.