Marc Wallice Quotes

I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there.

It always made me sad that there were kids who didn't have homes.

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

Being poor sucks... It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

What in the name of humanity is to become of them—where are they to go?

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.

I had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington Square Park.

I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something.

Not having a roof over your head at night must be frightening, cold, lonely and depressing. To be seriously ill as well must be beyond upsetting.

For many years, I didn't have a home.

I know what it feels like to be broke and alone, and I don't ever want my loved ones to see that or know what it's like.

When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?

I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at times, I would stop and look into the trash cans, and if there was a half a sandwich, I would take that sandwich and eat it. It was just a matter of survival. I didn't think much of it, but it was just the way things were.

At one stage, I didn't have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn't uncommon in the 1950s, and it wasn't uncommon to be out of money. There wasn't anywhere to go to get money.

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.