Christina Ricci Quotes

I come from the lower middle class, originally. We didn't have anything.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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.

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.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

I don't come from a lot of money.

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough.

My parents didn't have any money.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

We didn't grow up rich people.

I didn't have money growing up.

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

I've been poor most of my life.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.