Channing Dungey Quotes

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

I used to play snooker in millionaires' mansions with marble floors and eat at the best places, but that's all over now.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.

There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.

I don't have a Rolls. I don't have a jet. That's not me.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.

The stock market is for people who live in Manhattan and summer in the Hamptons, for people who can afford fancy cars - a Mercedes, say.

Ann Romney... looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles - eh! It's hard for me to believe. I mean, she's a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way.

I've had the luxury of not having to work because of my husband.

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

I grew up in the upper class, for sure. My family was kind of about that whole parties-and-horse racing thing. I can understand it's fun for some. I never enjoyed it.

Essentially, Louis XIV created exclusivity. If we look at how we live our lives today, many of us are members of clubs or gyms. We search out exclusivity. He created the world of fashion at Versailles.

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

As for Hollywood, I've got a killer job, and I'm having a blast. I have the luxury to go on trips whenever I want and invite my friends who can't afford it. And, God willing, I'll be able to do all that till the day I die.

Not everybody's life is like 'Gossip Girl.'

The Trudie Styler that is spoken of is extremely privileged in life and feels that privilege.

You find you have a lot of friends when you are rich and idle.