Sean Doolittle Quotes

We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls.

I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.

My brother and I slept on the couch. I didn't get my own room until I was in college. We didn't even have a telephone until I was in college.

I know what it's like to be a teenager in Orange County. I know what it's like to be a kid in L.A. I know what it's like to not have any money and have your lights turned off. I know what it's like to live in a house with five rooms.

Because I'm in the media quite a lot now, everyone assumes that everything is fine. People forget I sleep on a mattress on the floor with my son in a house I share with five other people.

I grew up in a commissioned house in the next suburb over, Mount Abbot. It was a two-bedroom house with me, my brother, and my two sisters. Mum and Dad slept in the lounge, and we didn't have wallpaper.

When I was 18, I moved out of home. I decided to try to be an actor, so took myself off to slum it with nine humans and a million mice in a red Leytonstone house.

I've always had big dreams and very little means.

My house was a revolving door. You walk in, you walk out, you get whatever you can eat, you leave, you go hang out with friends. I'm on my mission, my sister's on another mission, my dad is working trying to provide, my mom is trying to do the same thing. And somehow, we're all co-existing with each other.

Because I grew up in a single parent home with my mom, growing up, things weren't always the best.

My family's challenges meant we lived hand to mouth. There were weeks when we had neither electricity nor heating.

My dad was born with no money.

You learn a lot about people when you live together.

The Caribbean is all Third World islands and it's very tough to raise the money for sports.

Our family didn't have a lot of money, so my brother, parents and I spent our holidays at Southend-on-Sea.

Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up.

The odds are so against me, one mom and eight kids.

Being a hungry artist, you don't have the luxury of buying whatever you want. There were years of me doing a lot of odd jobs, this and that just to make ends meet.

At West Ham, I was never able to buy the top-flight players. It was a case of looking around, trying to do deals. I was always taking a gamble.

I was planning on being a starving artist.

I have seen extreme lows because of factors that were not in my hands - be it not having money to buy my first bike, dropping out of a prestigious engineering college without having a single rupee in my bank account, living with seven boys in a single-room kitchen in Mumbai, or eating nothing but khichdi every day. But I cherish all those moments.

I would take vouchers, do sums in my head just to get some eggs and bread or a tin of cheap Irish stew. I'd be starving and want two tins but couldn't afford it. The poorer you are the hungrier you feel.

Moving to Mumbai was difficult, as survival was a major concern. I was not from a very well-to-do family.

I didn't have the luxury of going to the four year school for acting.

I come from a family where some nights you don't know where food's going to come from. There's nights where you're going to have go to bed hungry.