Justin Peck Quotes

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

I was not somebody who watched a lot of films. We couldn't afford to. We came from struggling family background.

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

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

I came from nothing. We didn't have money, so I started work at 14 because I really needed the money.

I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

My parents did everything possible. My dad has worked from eight in the morning until nine in the evening to make it possible so I can play tennis. We had to cancel tournaments because we couldn't afford to go there.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

After you've cut back everything else, food is the last to go. I didn't mind putting an extra jumper on if I had food in the fridge. It was the point where I had an extra jumper on and no food in the fridge that I realised things had gone badly wrong.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I didn't have life that good coming up. I wasn't born with a lot of money. We weren't dirt poor, but we weren't rich. All I knew was struggle.

When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we'd struggle.

I've lived in poverty.

I was poor my whole life.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.

Mum obviously did not earn much money to feed me and my siblings. She worked hard to raise us, but there was always something missing.

I admit that I resent running out of research money.

My parents used to struggle to put food on our plates. Whatever little money they got, we had to make do with it.

I've been poor most of my life.