Josh Radnor Quotes

I've lived in poverty.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

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.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

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

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

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

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

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.

I think the most stressful time of my life was when I was in New York, and I didn't have money to pay my rent.

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.

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.

I was working maybe four different jobs just to make ends meet. I was really broke. I could barely pay rent. I didn't have a car. I was riding my bike from one job to another and then to audition in between.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.