A Quote by Clive Owen

I come from a very working-class background.

Clive Owen

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Clive Owen
English - Actor
Born: October 3, 1964

We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.

Tony Scott

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.

Billie Joe Armstrong

There is a lot more opportunity now, and I welcome all the conversations we are having about diversity, about women and about class... I come from a very working-class background, and I think the class thing is still probably more tricky.

Sophie Okonedo

I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.

Michelle Monaghan

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.

Denise Mina

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

Annie Lennox

I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very privileged backgrounds playing working class characters and vice-versa. I don't think your background limits you as to what you can do.

Daniel Radcliffe

I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.

Michelle Dockery

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

Amy Ryan

I come from a working class background, it wasn't easy for me at all, but I worked hard.

Sol Campbell

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

Chris Hayes

I come from a working-class background, and I thought I had to be studying something that would get me a job.

Lynn Coady

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

Jon Bon Jovi

My background is: I'm a Black man in America, victim of police brutality, victim of institutional racism, working-class from working-class roots.

Jamaal Bowman

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

John Hume

I come from a working-class background and it wasn't in my world to be a writer - I had no direct access to those kind of jobs. But I sensed I wanted to do something like that.

Roisin Conaty

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