Michelle Dockery Quotes

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

I remember having to quit school and quit my job. I just sort of moved all my stuff into other people's places. Within, like, six months, I was able to earn enough money from touring to rent a place again.

I've lived in so many different towns - Guttenberg, Union City, West New York, Jersey City. We didn't have a lot of money, and we'd get kicked out of places a lot.

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

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'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 think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

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.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

I used to drive myself about in an old Austin van... and then have to sleep in the back because I couldn't afford a hotel.

I've lived in poverty.

When I was growing up, I heard horror stories about producers losing their houses overnight. No matter who the family is, hearing of them getting evicted is very sad.

There were times when I didn't have enough money, I didn't have enough work, and I would panic.

I was struggling, I was hungry, I was a freelance copy editor but had very little work.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

I've seen my family work so hard and come up, and I've seen it all get taken away. I had to man up, and part of that was sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month, and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25 - $35 hotels. I just never panicked. I stayed focused and I never surrendered.

We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.

I think that so many people don't understand how easy it is to be broke, how easy it is to find yourself in a situation where you're in an absolutely foreign place.

When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though.

Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.