Quotes About Values

I'm not really into the fame thing. I've met so many celebrities now, and everybody's just the same. I'm a bit of a family bird.

I'm a family guy who grew up with metal, and even though I'm domesticated I still have this in me.

Oh, I'm going to raise him on Black Sabbath and Metallica and football and MMA and all things that should matter for a young boy, and discipline and strength and honor and courage and everything that I would hope to instill within my son.

I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.

I love Michael Bay movies. I don't think I'd be selling out if I did one. I happen to like his movies. I think selling out is doing something you don't believe in, and you're doing it for a selfish purpose.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

My middle class values are intact.

I grew up in the middle class.

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America. I don't think there's anything called 'middle class values' that are different from the values of other people in this country.

I am hard-core middle class.

If it's conservative to say we need to help the middle class, then I'm a conservative.

When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.

The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you know what I mean?

I come from a middle class family and I am not overambitious.

On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogynist bawbags - and the middle ground is what's disappearing.

I come from a very middle-class family.

My sister Farah and me, we come from a very middle-class family.

There are good people here in the Midwest. That's for sure.

I'm from the Midwest.

We all make mistakes. But I'm lucky. Being from Illinois and from the Midwest, we believe in pretty basic fairness. Once you've made a mistake, get up, dust yourself off, and go to work.

I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.

I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any time a Midwesterner criticizes someone, it's usually involving some form of being too big for your britches.