Blue Collar Quotes - Page 2

• How much do you have to pay someone to be in a George Clooney/Alexander Payne film? NOTHING!! Because everyone in the world wants to be a part of it. Therefore you pay nothing. And that continues until you become something they need... I'm not that kind of actor. I'm blue collar and very replaceable.

  Matthew Lillard

  Blue, Needs, Actors

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 30, 2012.

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• We didn't do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball.

  Lou Piniella

  Baseball, Blue, Fancy

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• Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, yet these same people are constantly insinuating that you're cheap. (It reminded me of medicine, another area where you shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, who make you feel guilty for questioning a bill.) Construction workers are the blue-collar version of the snooty salespeople at Gucci who make $8 an hour but look down on you if you balk at a $400 alligator wallet.

  Margo Kaufman

  Construction Workers, Blue, Medicine

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• Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.

  Virginia Postrel

  Blue, Wife, Comedian

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• Blue collar workers cannot hire each other. White collar workers cannot hire each other. You have to have a businessman or a businesswomen, a business owner to hire you. And you cannot make the environment so unfriendly to them or so unprofitable or so burdensome that they go out of business,because if they go out of business, you are out of a job.

  Duncan Hunter

  Jobs, Blue, White

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• I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and if anyone knows what I do for a living, they don't seem to care.

  George Pelecanos

  Blue, Care, Neighborhood

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• Where's our Paul Newmans? Where's our Robert Redfords? We've got Jason Statham, who is great... blue collar and cool, which is fantastic. And we've got Hugh Grant, which is great. But where's this crossover, this blue collar guy who is cool? Where is our James Dean? Where is our John Travolta and Steve McQueen?

  Ricky Gervais

  Blue, Guy, Jason

  "Cemetery Junction - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don't aim it at anybody specific, I don't aim my characters to make old people laugh or young people or professionals or blue collar, just whatever I think is going to be funny and it just so happens that.

  Jeff Dunham

  Character, Thinking, Blue

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• The travels before and after the tour are what add up to what you're doing. You are really called into service - and it's the service industry man, it's blue collar man, I'm sweating by the second song. It's construction work from that second song on.

  David Lee Roth

  Song, Men, Blue

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• To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.

  Michael Jai White

  Responsibility, Blue, Perspective

  "Interview with Falcon Rising star and martial artist Michael Jai White". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. September 8, 2014.

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• I understand a lot of celebrities lose weight because they have the opportunity to get in shape and become healthier, but when you get so polished, you can't tell the story of a blue-collar family anymore.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Opportunity, Blue, Stories

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• I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

  Joe Mantegna

  Thinking, Blue, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have a responsibility to the worker, both blue-collar and white-collar. I have an equal responsibility to the community. It would have been unconscionable to put 3,000 people on the streets and deliver a deathblow to the cities of Lawrence and Methuen. Maybe on paper our company is worthless to Wall Street, but I can tell you it's worth more.

  Aaron Feuerstein

  Wall, Responsibility, Blue

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• I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

  Rupert Graves

  School, Blue, Class

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

  Christopher Lasch

  Jobs, Blue, Class

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.68, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.

  Bernie Mac

  Daughter, Mother, Jobs

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• My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing

  Ne-Yo

  Mom, Jobs, Blue

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• I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

  James Cameron

  Blue, People, Hollywood

  "Man of Extremes". Interview with Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Ed "The Truth Is Illegal" Markey responded to Teamster support for ANWR by dismissively sniffing, it was only "one issue." Luckily, the Democrats have all those other issues dear to the heart of the average blue-collar worker: abortion on demand, gay marriage and taxpayer-funded crucifixes submerged in urine.

  Ann Coulter

  Heart, Gay, Blue

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• The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

  Christian Bale

  Blue, Cinema, Collars

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't know what to think of the money. It's kind of mind-boggling. I come from a middle-class, blue-collar family. We've never really had money.

  Pat Burrell

  Thinking, Blue, Class

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• I wanted to finish my career as a Steeler. I felt I just fit the mold as far as a blue-collar guy. I may not be the flashiest, most flamboyant wide receiver out there. But I get the job done for my team.

  Hines Ward

  Jobs, Team, Blue

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• I think fans cling to me because I'm a blue-collar guy in a blue-collar city.

  Hines Ward

  Thinking, Blue, Cities

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• Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Struggle, Blue, Would Be

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• I think a lot of people see, obviously, the business side of my father. But, I mean, he's just a great guy. We enjoyed the holidays so much. To be able to spend time with him when he's not necessarily working or not doing the political thing, I mean, he's much more of a blue collar American.

  Donald Trump, Jr.

  Father, Holiday, Mean

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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