Michael Caine Quotes

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

Class has always been Tom Wolfe's subject, and I suspect the reason for much of the disfavor in which he is held.

I don't like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.

Class is really interesting to me, maybe because I'm from England where there is a pretty hideous, deep-rooted obsession with class. I don't like the obsession with class, but it certainly interests me.

I think class is still an issue in this country.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.