Brie Larson Quotes

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative.

This is a wonderful year for raw truth. We don't have any money.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

We're broke. It's never a fun message to deliver.

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

I know what not being able to pay your bills feels like real well... I know that way better than a room full of beautiful people and Tony awards and Grammy awards.

I've been in hard times.

I didn't have money growing up.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.