A Quote by Amy Ryan

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

Amy Ryan

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Background Class Come New New York Queens Working Working-Class York

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Amy Ryan
American - Actress
Born: November 30, 1969

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

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 come from a very working-class background.

Clive Owen

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

Tony Scott

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 was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

Peter Jurasik

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'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting.

Ruby Dee

You're supported by everything in New York if you want to be a performing artist. You come here, you can change your name. You leave home, you come here, you're severed from family obligations - the old identity drops away as soon as you come to New York because you're coming to New York, if you're an artist, to be someone else.

Margo Jefferson

I was born in Queens, New York. I've done every job you could think of in New York. Selling peanuts to Larry Fresh Fruit ices to dog walker to unloading trucks at the Jacob Javits Center.

Dito Montiel

I have friends in New York that won't leave New York, and they're really talented people, but they'd rather take an acting class in New York than do a play in Florida or Boston. That's just weird to me, but they get into that I've-got-to-be-in-the-center-of-the-universe mentality. I'm not that way.

Robert Englund

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

Lynn Coady

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.