Groucho Marx Quotes

I recall the hard work that my family went through just to continue to live the lifestyle that we were living, which wasn't by any means a great lifestyle.

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.'

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

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.

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.

I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.

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

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.

I am definitely not rich.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

Success is always less funny than failure.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.