Posh Quotes - page 2

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough. (Damian Lewis)
I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people. View quote
Dominic West
I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it. View quote
Emily Mortimer
I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is. View quote
Jessie J
I was obsessed with the Spice Girls! I always wanted to be Sporty. Or Posh, but I wasn't pretty enough. View quote
Jessie J
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. View quote
Kate Reardon
Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species. View quote
Laura Wade
I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one. View quote
Laura Wade
I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh. View quote
Michelle Dockery
Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm. View quote
Mona Simpson
We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood. (Penelope Keith)
I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others. View quote
Richard E. Grant
I couldn't care less about walking down the red carpet in a pair of heels and a posh frock. I'd rather be in my pyjamas at home. View quote
Sophia Myles
My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them. View quote
Sally Phillips
Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything. View quote
Emma Thompson
I don't live a very posh life. There are no drivers waiting or people doing everything for me. I pretty much live like a normal person. . . . It's not good to have a life without responsibilities, you know . View quote
Liv Tyler
I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension. View quote
Stephen Mangan
I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds. View quote
Kaya Scodelario
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it. View quote
Benedict Cumberbatch
Two posh boys who don't know the price of milk. View quote
Nadine Dorries
There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England... Everybody was in a skiffle group... All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass... you only needed two chords Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle,that's all it is. (George Harrison)
Even in a dream, even at a posh ball, the Nac Mac Feegle knew how to behave. You charged in madly, and you screamed... politely. pommes frites. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Jack wasn't my type at all. I thought he was too young and too posh, and I told him that. Plus, I couldn't deal with his dodgy bowl-cut. But he wore me down. View quote
Michelle Gomez
I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one! View quote
Anita Pallenberg
This bloke, I swear he's in any supermarket car park. He's great. He walks across the car park, and he's got one of those fobs, and he opens his car before he gets there. [posh voice] "Ha, ha, ha! I don't know if you saw what I just did there, but I actually opened my car door before I actually physically got there!" View quote
Lee Evans (comedian)