Jennifer Hale Quotes

I do come from fairly humble beginnings.

In Brazil, I didn't have it easy growing up.

My kids are being raised in a much more affluent environment than was mine. My wife and I talk about that all the time because neither of us had this kind of experience.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

You don't need to come from poverty to say growing up is tough. You can have everything in the world going for you and still feel the same loneliness and the same problems that a lot of kids have.

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.

I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

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

I don't come from a privileged background.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

I'm a good little middle-class boy. I live in Gloucestershire or Kensington. I don't exist in the war zone, but it's certainly not far away. I grew up in an area where it is a war zone - south London.

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.

Because of the life I've had, I'd grown up quicker than most people.

There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to.

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.

I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.

Life is really hard for some people.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.