Quotes About Privilege

I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.

I was privileged to serve as a judge.

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

I don't come from a privileged background.

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.

Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.

It is feasible for someone who comes from a privileged background to understand the privilege they have had and to use the formal political arena in a way that would disperse power and engage with people in their own lives.

I grew up with a very privileged background. My father served as one of the cabinet ministers in Arroyo's government, and he's been a congressman for many years, and he's running again.

People have always assumed that I am privileged. And that has been a problem sometimes. When I first started modelling, and I was schlepping around London with no money, I found it rather irksome that people thought I had a private income when I didn't.

I'm very lucky to live my life through a sport that I love. I'm in a very privileged position that my work is my hobby.

I find myself really privileged to be able to go in and look at a set that the likes of Hollywood can provide, and say, 'My God, look at the craftsmanship in this; look at the ambition in it, the scale of it.'

We're very lucky people, doing something that we really love to do. I feel privileged to have been an actor all my life.

Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as something extra-difficult or something very privileged - I don't buy that at all.

I was privileged to know the late, great Miss Etta James, and I did get a chance to spend some time with her and hang out with her.

I believe that art elevates humanity. I feel incredibly privileged to be part of that.

I've had cancer four times. But you know, God has blessed me, and I feel so honored and so privileged in the blessings of life.

I know that I am not owed the right to make movies. I know God has given me this privileged position, and I have to work dog-hard as an actor to make the films the best they can be.

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.

We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a number of different ways.

I don't hear women who are less privileged thinking they're entitled to everything, whenever they want it. That's a privilege phenomenon, but it is a phenomenon.

I never had a kid before, and it's the best. It's something you're privileged to be part of, and my favorite things in the world are my kid and wife.

Life at the top may be privileged, but it is not simple.