Robert Downey Jr. Quotes

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to another bar. I lived that way when I was unemployed, when I was a snowboard instructor, and when I was at NYU. A lot of my personality is stuck in those five years, and I don't know if that's ever gonna change.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

Money can't buy poverty.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

I have a poverty demon. I'll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he'll say, 'What are you talking about?'

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

I wasn't rich.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

Wealth is far away. Poverty is near.

I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.