Tony Bates Quotes

I came from rather humble beginnings.

I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.

I come from very humble beginnings.

Growing up it was humble beginnings.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

Nobody's got it made. Nobody, no matter what they look like.

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

I will never not know where I came from. I can be in the biggest house, the best apartment, winning Tonys and Grammys and whatever, and I will always remember waiting in line for government cheese and bread and having food stamps. I had a tough life, and I will never not know the way I was raised and the place where I was raised.

We didn't grow up rich people.

My dad was born with no money.

I wasn't a silver-spoon kid on the golf course growing up.

I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

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.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

I grew up in Inglewood, L.A., and South Central. I was always humbled by my situation. I would go on set and come home to my neighborhood and my block to my friends, and it would be a whole other story.

I saw my parents come over. They were immigrants, they had no money. My dad wore the same pair of shoes, I had some ugly clothes growing up, and I never had any privileges. In some ways, I think the person that I am now, I think it's good that I had that kind of tough upbringing.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.