Washington Irving Quotes

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

Money can't buy poverty.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

Let's say I go completely broke, I'm about to star in the next '30 for 30: Broke.'

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.

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.

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

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

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