Bryan Cranston Quotes

I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.

I wouldn't say we were middle class. There was not lots of money for nice things. But we never wanted for the things we needed.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

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 come from really humble people. We never had a lot.

Growing up, we never really had money. If I wanted to get something, I had to go out and get a job.

We were poor and lived modestly, but we always had food on the table.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

I haven't always had the money rolling in. I'm a character actor; it's not like I'm Gwyneth Paltrow - so I do have hard times still in my life. And that's even more why it's like you know what, I'm not that different from people going through it. I struggle; I look for a better deal at the grocery store.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

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.'

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

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

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

In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

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.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

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.

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.