Jonathan Majors Quotes

I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

I work hard, and I haven't done badly in life. But I pretty much came from very modest roots... I go home on my train; I cut my own grass... I don't have anything against people that are more elite, but it's just not who I am or what I'm about.

You can't kid the public. When they see me they see I'm just a kid off a council estate - no more, no less.

My dad was working class.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

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.

They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better - the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

I don't know how you can move out of one's socioeconomic category if you don't have education.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.

Only in a nation like ours could someone like me, the scrappy son of a simple carpenter, grow up to become a simple senator.

I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.

The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.

My parents came from working-class, small-peasant, farm-labourer backgrounds and had made the grade during the fascist years; my father came out of the army as a captain.

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.

We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.

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.

People have to recognise I'm a working-class lad. Forget what I've done and where I've been. I'm a working-class lad. I've come from nothing and I've not forgotten that.

This is not a family of privilege by any stretch of the imagination. Our family is very low key.

I'm no different to other working class players.