Matt de la Pena Quotes

I grew up working class in Atlanta.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

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

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

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.

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.

My dad was born with no money.

I grew up in West Jakarta, in a middle-to-low-class neighbourhood.

I came from a real working-class show business family.

My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood.

I come from a very working-class background.

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

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

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

A little bit about my family: We didn't really come from much, and we didn't take family trips to California, so my first trip to California was actually my first day of school.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

I grew up on Chicago's South Side in a working-poor family, so I watched everything on television. It was like my window on the world. But we also went to the movies pretty regularly - mostly on Tuesdays, because that was Ladies Night, and my mom could get in for free.

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

I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.

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