Posh people blow my mind. Apart from empathy, they’re good at everything – true survivalists.
My mum’s from Yorkshire and my parents aren’t snotty or posh – they’re very hard workers, both of them.
I do want people to think of me as an actor, not just a posh actor who does posh parts.
Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn’t know anything until I went to Oxford.
I worry I look posh and fat. I can’t do anything about posh – I’m accentless – but I’ve spent 20 years battling my weight.
I can’t wait until I’m able to afford really posh bags.
I am not posh. I went to a comprehensive school.
I don’t have a life where it’s galas, posh affairs. It’s me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.
Cricket was deemed too posh where I came from, and I’d never have risked walking home through the estates in my whites. My club played some of the posh schools. I’d have the cheapest kit, but I loved those games. As soon as the posh lads opened their mouths and you heard their accents, the stakes were raised.
I don’t think old posh is as intimidating as new posh, is it?
There’s posh character actors. For God’s sake, Olivier was one of the greatest character actors in the world. Hamlet, Shylock, Othello – Othello! Whether you like it or not.
It’s one of my biggest internal struggles – the whole schooling system in London and the fact that my kids are going to a posh school. It freaks me out.
A lot of people went to posh universities, but I left at 17 to work for three years at Frank Newton’s Gentleman’s Outfitters in Shrewsbury, where I gained a professional qualification in how to measure a suit.
People want to see me as a posh square, so I’ll play an East End drag queen or a young man with a cleft palate.
I’ve always seen kids with parents who were still together as quite posh.
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