Sean Lock Quotes

I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.

Not that I am hugely working class, but in the U.K. I'm always perceived, casting-wise, as being working class.

So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human.

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

If you're white working class, it's very easy to caricature the elites, and if you're elite, it's very easy to caricature the white working class.

Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad.

Yeah, it is particularly upsetting to be called, whatever it was, sneery, or a snob, given the background I have.

Categorizing people economically and hating them because you think they're this way is a prejudice.

Discounting the ineffably repetitive homophobic barbs that I receive most days, Twitter trolls' most common gripe against me appears to be that I am 'posh.' Contrary to their unshakeable view, I was not born into the upstairs world.

Most people were annoyed with my voice, I think, because I'm working-class, and that doesn't sound quite right on Radio 4.

There's always been a nasty strain of class prejudice ingrained in the condemnation of football's 'undeserving rich,' as if the working class is uniquely susceptible to being corrupted by money, and as if they deserve their wealth less than those born to it.

It's hard to get the downtrodden working-class wifey sometimes because 'You don't look like it'. Well, that's weird because I grew up on a scheme in Paisley. But everyone's got a viewpoint about what you should look like, and it's tainted by prejudices and assumptions.

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

I feel sometimes that there's this sense that people are poor because they want to be, or they're working-class because they want to be or because they don't work hard enough. I feel like there's this demonization of working people in general, but specifically definitely labor union members.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

You're either ghetto or you're not.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

At various points, I've had a massive chip on me shoulder. I had fights about me accent with loads of those fellers you get from third-class public schools. They used to think I was speaking German.