Craig Thompson Quotes

I was an only child. Both my parents came from working-class families in Hackney, east London.

My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.

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

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.

My parents were not professionals. They were products of the Depression.

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

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

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.

I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.

I was raised in a conservative Christian household. We weren't even allowed to watch 'secular' television, anything that was deemed not proper for Christians.

My family has been poor and working-class for generations. And we live - I live in this really small community in Southern Mississippi where you don't evacuate, and you have never evacuated because there are too many people in your family to evacuate.

I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.

My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.

My father was a pastor, my mother was the quintessential pastor's wife.

I was not somebody who watched a lot of films. We couldn't afford to. We came from struggling family background.

When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me. But it was definitely a struggle to get through life and get through school.

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

I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He broke his back and was disabled, and the first memory I have of him is in the hospital. My mother was a working mother - she had two jobs. Everybody in the house had to help out.

I come from a lower-middle-class family and used to stay in a housing board colony.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.