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Daily Inspiration Quote by Liam Hemsworth

"Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades"

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There is a quiet flex in how Hemsworth frames “best friends” as tradespeople: it’s a celebrity origin story that refuses the expected cast. In a culture where fame is supposed to rewrite your social circle, he’s insisting on continuity. The list - plumbers, electricians, builders, landscapers - isn’t accidental. These are jobs you can picture, jobs with callouses, invoices, early mornings. The specificity does the credibility work. “Ninety percent” sounds like someone trying to be precise, not poetic, which is exactly why it lands as authentic.

The subtext is defensive in a way that feels familiar for actors who get filed under “pretty and privileged.” Hemsworth is pre-empting the suspicion that his success is detached from ordinary life, or that Hollywood has made him unrecognizable to the people he came from. By anchoring himself to trades, he’s borrowing their cultural authority: competence, practicality, no-nonsense masculinity, the virtue of making something real. It’s also a soft rebuke to the idea that status equals sophistication.

Then he widens the frame: “Most of our dads worked in trades.” That line shifts from personal anecdote to communal biography. It’s not just “I’m grounded,” it’s “I’m from a world where work is inherited, where adulthood looks like learning a skill and showing up.” In the current class conversation - where “working class” gets aestheticized or weaponized - his quote works because it’s not an abstract identity. It’s a social ecosystem, named in plain language, meant to keep him legible.

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Hemsworth, Liam. (2026, January 15). Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ninety-percent-of-my-best-friends-back-home-are-172490/

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Hemsworth, Liam. "Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ninety-percent-of-my-best-friends-back-home-are-172490/.

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"Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ninety-percent-of-my-best-friends-back-home-are-172490/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Liam Hemsworth (born January 13, 1990) is a Actor from Australia.

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