Kerry Stokes Quotes

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

I was homeless for almost a year and a half, just living in my car or bouncing around peoples' houses, going to 7-Eleven at the end of the day and asking them for the taquitos that they were going to throw out because I hadn't eaten in two days.

I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at times, I would stop and look into the trash cans, and if there was a half a sandwich, I would take that sandwich and eat it. It was just a matter of survival. I didn't think much of it, but it was just the way things were.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

There's something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It's powerful.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Money can't buy poverty.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.

I grew up homeless, you know, lived in and out of U-Haul trucks and, you know, apartment houses, friends.

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.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.