I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.
My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.
No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.
I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a stronger and bigger government.
We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.
One reason that we eat processed foods is the decline of home economics. Restarting home economics classes is one of the key things we could do to get this issue moving.
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.
Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.
A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.
I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.
When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years.
Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: 'Lou, you're a leading man because you're a good actor.' Brought tears to my eyes.
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.
I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.
