Christian Bale Quotes

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

I make films about working class people. All my films have always been about that. For example, the brothel is a workplace. It's aberrant, but a workplace nonetheless. I was more interested as opposed to glamorizing and saying, oh, this is a great erotic place, it's a place of business. The commodity is sex.

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.

I come from a very working-class background.

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

With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.

I come from a blue-collar family, and I'm just glad for the work.

I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.

A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.

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

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'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.

My dad was working class.

I'm blue collar, which means white trash with a job. But it also means people who take pride in what they do.

I'm a working class lad.

I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.

I think if I'd never had found pro wrestling, I'd be a blue collar guy, working a 9-to-5 job.

Most of our fans are the hardworking people of the world. They are the people who have made this country great.

My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.

My dad was a coalman and was always playing snooker with his mates.

Woodfall wasn't deliberately telling working-class stories, but John Osborne and other writers who were involved with them were writing those stories, which had never really been written before. The working-class person always had to have an accent before, was often a joker, and peripheral. At Woodfall, they were driving the film.

There's a lot more blue-collar workers out there than the so-called elites.

My parents never went to college. My dad started as an hourly worker.