Christopher Darden Quotes

There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my car, which wasn't insured. My wallet was in there, and I couldn't call AAA, because I only had $7 in my bank account. It was one of those moments where I was like, 'O.K., I literally have nothing right now.'

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

Parenting is something that I got early, because when you grow up without a father being there, and you see a single mother struggle to feed the kids, you do not want to put your own blood through that.

I eventually turned the fridge and freezer off - they were empty anyway - and the boiler, desperate to save money, shocking myself awake in the morning with the shortest, coldest showers, and boiling a kettle of water twice a week to bath my young son.

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.

I got a family to take care of and kids to feed. That's my motivation, this is my job.

Growing up, we were a poor yet tightknit family. My mother worked multiple jobs and always made sure that her kids never had to want for anything.

I was poor. I struggled big time, living hand to mouth so I could be the kind of artist I want to be.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

The beggarly last doit.

It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and one could live on a pretty low income. One could live well below the poverty line and not suffer immensely.

Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.