Lewis Black Quotes

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

After graduating from high school, even though I was working, I didn't have enough money to pay rent, so I stayed with my Nana.

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.

Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.

It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.

I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.

People used to call me for donations, and I couldn't relate to that because I have spent most of my life trying to support myself.

I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken.

I came to New York with $500. That was a lot of money because my allowance was 50 cents.

I don't even get an allowance.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

Boy, we'll get Raymond out and we won't go hungry anymore.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

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 never wanted to rely on my family for money.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

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.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.