Antony Garrett Lisi Quotes

I squatted for most of my adult life. I'm not condoning squatting; it was just the only way I could do what I wanted to do. I didn't have, you know, a trust fund or parents that could help out.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room... there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.

There was a time when I just didn't have the opportunities, which meant going without things in my life - whether it was clothes, or food, or money - and living a really bare-bones life.

I still have the mentality of someone who doesn't know where he's going to sleep and doesn't know if he has enough money for gas to get to the next job interview. I don't think that mentality ever leaves, you know?

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?

Luckily, I didn't get too beaten up before someone gave me a shot, but there were times when I was living on friends' couches and eating five-dollar subs from Subway almost every meal.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

At one stage, I didn't have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn't uncommon in the 1950s, and it wasn't uncommon to be out of money. There wasn't anywhere to go to get money.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.

I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me.

A hungry man is not a free man.

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

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

I grew up poor.

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

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.