Non-Traditional Background Quotes

I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.

Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree.

I was a partner at Pricewaterhouse before I got my four year degree.

I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.

No one in my family is in show business, unless you count dog shows as show business.

I thought to myself, 'All right, let's take a look at your resume. You have no financial background. You have basketball, that's what you have, for your whole life.'

When I came back from Munich, it was September, and I was Professor of Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Later I learned that I had been the Department's third choice, after two numerical analysts had turned the invitation down; the decision to invite me had not been an easy one, on the one hand because I had not really studied mathematics, and on the other hand because of my sandals, my beard and my "arrogance" (whatever that may be).

They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

I definitely feel like I had a different upbringing to a lot of other people, but not in a bad - or good - way.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

I spent my whole upbringing in sporting camps. I didn't do cotillion.

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

My background is not typical of a lawyer or a DPP. My dad was a toolmaker before he retired, so he worked in a factory all his life.

I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

My family is my biggest critic. Since they come from a non-filmi background, they give me an audience's point of view. They have been very supportive of me.

I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an art museum. I grew up in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in rural Arkansas, an hour from the nearest movie theater.