Jeremy Piven Quotes

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

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

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

Poverty affects people of all races.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

Political rights notwithstanding, 'freedom' rings awfully hollow when you're getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.

Poverty makes you work really hard.

There are huge misconceptions about people on benefits. They are labelled scroungers or cheats. The reality is that many who need that level of support are working, but their income is not enough to get out of debt or pay for basics like food and household bills. It's so close to the way I grew up.

Taxes and fees in Chicago and Cook County are forcing low-income families like the one I grew up in out of this city. It's clear we can't keep treating low-income and middle-class families like an ATM machine with no limit.

We didn't grow up rich people.

We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.

People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-Gal is paid seventy-five bucks per game. That is correct: seventy-five bucks for each of ten home games. The grand cash total per season does not keep most of them flush in hair spray, let alone gas money to and from practice.

For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.

I didn't live the lifestyle of the rich and famous. My diapers were nappy cloth. I didn't live in a big house.

I don't come from a lot of money.

It shouldn't be down to charities to be the sole help for those who fall through the cracks.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

I think that's always something when you're working class, when you're aware of things that you haven't had; there are moments when you question yourself, definitely.