Camila Alves Quotes

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big city with nothing and make it.

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I was 20 years old. My entire possessions consisted of $5 and a sewing machine.

I genuinely have to work - I don't have enough money not to. But the last thing I would want is to be looked after.

I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

Poverty breeds a lack of self reliance.

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.

Growing up, we never really had money. If I wanted to get something, I had to go out and get a job.

When I was very young, I had to start to working to help my family, while my friends were studying. Since then, I have felt the urgency to escape from every dependency situation.

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 grew up working hard to earn everything I had.

I've always had a job. I left home when I was 16, and you have to look after yourself.

My mom was not able to buy us the expensive Air Jordans, so if I wanted something that was a little bit nicer, my brother and I, we had to go earn money for it.

I have come from a background where I haven't had lots of money to put me on the map. I've had to work very hard for what I've got.

I've spent my life supporting myself.

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.