Allan Sherman Quotes

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

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

I didn't have money growing up.

When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

I come from a poor family.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

I grew up poor.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

I grew up in a family struggling for work.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

My family were really poor.

I was working maybe four different jobs just to make ends meet. I was really broke. I could barely pay rent. I didn't have a car. I was riding my bike from one job to another and then to audition in between.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

I was poor my whole life.

I've been poor most of my life.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

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

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

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.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

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.