La'Porsha Renae Quotes

I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.

In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.

If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

I am from a poor background in Portugal. We were medium-down, not down-and-out. My parents felt problems around food in the past but they made sure I did not miss anything. But there was nothing extra, no luxuries.

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.

I work hard and I don't come from a rich family.

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.

I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.

My family's challenges meant we lived hand to mouth. There were weeks when we had neither electricity nor heating.

Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their struggles.

I had to let go of many things because we did not have much money growing up. Like joining the Film Institute in Pune or learning the piano.

Me personally, I come from very, very humble beginnings - little, small town in Alabama, you know, staying at my granddaddy house. We really didn't have nothing.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.