Quotes: Class

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 – only this time, it’s not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it’s tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

My parents couldn’t afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

You don’t have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.