Louie Anderson Quotes

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.

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.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

I've grown up watching 'BQC' and 'KBC' and that's really serious stuff.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

Americans shouldn't have to hold down two or three jobs to make ends meet.

I'm the poorest famous person in the country.

I came from the most humble side of society, and I know what it's like to be poor, really poor, and I was brought up in the '60s and '70s very poor, and I'm very happy flying the flag for the working man.

Now, instead of loading up your jalopy and heading for California, you take a second, badly paid job; 'The Grapes of Wrath' has turned into 'Nickel and Dimed.'

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

Most rich people are the poorest people I know.

It’s scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

The world is full of smart, poor people.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

I do think that it is no surprise that, economically, America is in trouble. There's been a lot of trouble out there. More and more women have found themselves doing phone sex and things like that, to help pay bills, so that they could be two-income households. They can do these short-term jobs and still pick up their kids at school, at the end of the day, and drop them off in the morning. I find it fascinating. I'm not one to judge the people in that situation, nor would I really want to.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

I was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I lived in a neighborhood where it was brought to my eyes every single day that people didn't live like me. Every day I knew that many of my friends "got relief." That was important in my thinking about the world, thinking that not everybody lived that way.

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.

I think the first time I was on The David Letterman Show, he didn't quite know what to expect. I think people generally are just a little afraid.

Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.