Iain Stirling Quotes

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.

I have a working-class approach to music.

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.

It's hard to get the downtrodden working-class wifey sometimes because 'You don't look like it'. Well, that's weird because I grew up on a scheme in Paisley. But everyone's got a viewpoint about what you should look like, and it's tainted by prejudices and assumptions.

I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine.

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

I like a New York accent.

I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.

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

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

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

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

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

I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.

There are no human beings whose sense of social identity is fully and exclusively given for themselves by the membership of the working (or any other) class

I don't pronounce all my words exactly how they do on the BBC. I am who I am.

I grew up in a Glaswegian house because my parents are fairly Glaswegian-sounding.

You can take the girl out of the estate, but you can't take the estate out of the girl.

Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.

My parents were decent, aspirant first-generation middle class. They read 'Reader's Digest', listened to classical music; my grandparents had a bust of Stalin on the mantelpiece. The kids of that generation were terrified of being below par, class-wise.

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