Maye Musk Quotes

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

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.

I don't believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.

If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.

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

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.

I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.

I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.

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 was doing a lot of great theatre, but I just couldn't work out how to make ends meet.

I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.

It's tough for some families throughout the year and during the holidays.

Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.

I grew up poor in San Pedro, California, sleeping on the floor of shady motels with my five siblings and not always sure when or where I'd get my next meal.

I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

We came from nothing really. One house. Ten people. Even days the lights was off. The worst days was not eating. Surviving off rice and toast.

When I was born, my family was so poor that there was no money to buy food. So the church bought groceries for us - there wasn't any kind of privilege.

Venezuelans live on 3 dollars a month. That's a tragedy. That is impossible to survive under these conditions.