Iman Quotes

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

I know what not being able to pay your bills feels like real well... I know that way better than a room full of beautiful people and Tony awards and Grammy awards.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

We didn't have much money. My whole extended family used to help us, and buy us books and food. It was hard, and there were things I didn't want to talk about. But at the end I was a happy girl.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

A slave dreams of freedom, a free man dreams of wealth, the wealthy dream of power, and the powerful dream of freedom.

My father was raised in an orphanage, and my mother was an immigrant from Poland whose first childhood memory was of hunger. Somehow, despite all of that, I am called a member of the 'elite.' If so, I damned well earned it.

Long before I achieved financial success and became the subject of a Hollywood film, I was a veteran, a single father, and a working person who was homeless.

I didn't want to be looked at as a below-the-poverty-line kid. But now I think, that trailer is where I got the ambition. The anger. If we had a better life, I wouldn't be here. That trailer made me.

I knew what it was to be poor... my mother worried about putting food on the table. I knew what it was to feel excluded and shut out, but I also knew what it was to experience love and generosity.

Having grown up a trailer park kid on welfare and food stamps, becoming jaded is impossible, although now I make a good living, which I'm not ashamed of; when you've been poor, it never leaves you.

I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school.

I don't know many artists who've come out of Beverly Hills, y'know? You need that struggle.

My mom is a beautiful, amazing woman. We didn't have a ton of money growing up, and even, at one point, we were living on food stamps. But my mom still managed to make sure we ate healthy and were always fed nutritious meals!

Our house was repossessed and we lived in a B&B until we got a council house. It was a struggle, but Mum just got her head down, found cleaning jobs and never complained. I owe her a lot, so I now do everything she says.

When you grow up on the other side of the tracks, you're used to taking a few bumps.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

We barely had lights, but my mom always made sure we had food on the table and somewhere to sleep.