Jesse L. Martin Quotes

I had almost no money, but with the little bit I had, I got a ticket to see 'That Championship Season' at the Booth theater.

$3,000 from a residual cheque was all I made one year.

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

Initially when I moved over to Italy it was really easy because I was living my dream. Everything was brand new. Then I began to get into the routine: training, school, home, home, school, training. That's all I did for 18 months. I had 20 euros to live on a week and I couldn't do anything else, because you can't with that amount of money.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

I've never had money before in my life. Ever. Never, ever.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

My parents didn't have any money.

Truman didn't have enough money to make a radio speech.

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

If you've just been sacked from work, with no money coming in and a baby to feed, clothe and keep warm, it's unlikely you'll have a thousand pounds or so to spare.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.

We don't make enough in our job to live the way that we would want to and to have the support that we would need. Most of our income doesn't even come from our salary from our employer and we have to find income from other places.

I don't come from a lot of money.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.