Anthea Turner Quotes

When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.

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.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

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.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

I don't come from money.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

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

I was very poor when I was young.

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

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

I have no regrets about being poor.

I don't come from a lot of money.

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.

I didn't have money growing up.

I was poor my whole life.

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

I've been poor most of my life.

I may have been in financial difficulties, but I'm not a pauper.