Margaret Cho Quotes

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

I don't come from money.

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

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

My parents didn't have any money.

When I was a kid, our family was not that rich.

I have no regrets about being poor.

I wouldn't say we were middle class. There was not lots of money for nice things. But we never wanted for the things we needed.

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I thought it was normal to recycle pants and shoes from your older cousins. That was just my way of life. At the end of the month, there was not much food in the refrigerator and you're hoping the first comes so food can come again. You never forget those things.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

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

I do smaller films, I'm not getting big paydays. I feel like we're just kind of scraping together here.

I was raised in a very blue-collar family.

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

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?'

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