Working Class Community Quotes

The idea that working a blue-collar job and living in a working-class community provides barriers that are unique to your circumstances - that's not a very controversial subject anymore. I think it's something that people on both the Left and the Right probably accept.

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

Where I grew up was a place called Salford, which was the industrial heartland of Manchester. And where I lived in Salford, I could walk to the center of Manchester within about 20 minutes. So I lived really close to the center.

I'm from this working class town on the fringes of the rural aspects of Lancashire.

When you watch 'Save Me,' you want to be there. Even if you haven't grown up on an estate like this, you want to go to that pub and meet these people.

It's a blue-collar city [Manchester] that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out.

I'm a working class lad.

The street I lived on for the first handful of years of my life was lined with modest, lower-middle-class houses with small front yards and cracked driveways - your typical North Jersey neighborhood, with all the odd hidden darkness that that implies.

I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community. There were no miracles in my life, there's nothing miraculous about how I grew up, and I want people to know when they look at me, to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like.

I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and if anyone knows what I do for a living, they don't seem to care.

What I say about 'This Is England' is they're like my best friends back home. Normal, working-class, beautiful people who I'm creative with.

The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.