Jeremy Renner Quotes

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.

We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

I am from a poor background in Portugal. We were medium-down, not down-and-out. My parents felt problems around food in the past but they made sure I did not miss anything. But there was nothing extra, no luxuries.

When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.

We called ourselves '2 Too Many' because we only had enough money for one of us.

I grew up in Plaza East public housing in the Western Addition, five of us living on $900 per month. 'Recycling' meant drinking out of old mayonnaise jars.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interesting. You can live there with a certain amount of style.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

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.

I thought it was normal to recycle pants and shoes from your older cousins. That was just my way of life. At the end of the month, there was not much food in the refrigerator and you're hoping the first comes so food can come again. You never forget those things.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

I was 20 years old. My entire possessions consisted of $5 and a sewing machine.

I used to live off of nothing.

I was not a girl who grew up buying $100 candles. I was the girl who ran out of gas on her way to an audition.

For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.

We were an underprivileged family. My parents were both tailors. We got by. But we only had a few important things in our life.

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.