Samuel Fuller Quotes

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

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.

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

I definitely would say, by sixth grade, I was a professional shoplifter - and not because I wanted to. I'm not going out to shoplift earrings or clothes or shoes like the average teenager. I was shoplifting frozen dinners at a grocery store.

I had to steal to survive.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

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

Some people were breaking in to get food for their families. They were in survivor mode. Don’t confuse that with a guy carting off a 64 inch television set and looting…. The test is take the mirror and put it in front of your face and ask what would you do.

I had my hustle. It was whatever I could do to not end up working in a factory. If I had to shake it like a showgirl, I was going to do it.

So what if I'm sexy? You can still eat tomorrow if you see me and find me sexy. But if I steal your money, tomorrow you cannot eat, and tomorrow you cannot go to school, and tomorrow you'll be a hopeless man.

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

I did everything to get food. I have stolen for food. I have jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food. I have befriended people in the neighborhood who I knew had mothers who cooked three meals a day for food, and I sacrificed a childhood for food and grew up in immense shame.

Nobody wants to sell their child, but what they wind up doing is selling their child to be able to support their family.

I was a single mother, and my boys were babies. I sold my body for food, money, and Pampers.

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.

The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing.

I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.

Sometimes, you have to remind yourself that some people are just trying to find something to eat.

We had nothing in hand and my father used to live on the street. The profession of acting happened to him when B.R. Chopra picked him up for a film, and my father acted just to earn money for survival.

There is nothing remotely dignified about sorting through rotting trash to find something to feed your child, or asking someone for money because you have none (anyone who has contrived to give people money before they had to ask will never forget the look of gratitude in their eyes).

Make us your slaves, but feed us.

If I wasn't involved in this hip-hop sh*t, I'd probably be breakin' the law to eat and feed my family and maintain the lifestyle that I'm used to.

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.