Pamela Adlon Quotes

Living and working in the centre of a city, one cannot but be affected by the sight of the homeless on the streets. They are almost an expected feature of life in a big city, and it is tempting to think there is little or nothing that can, or even should, be done about it. This is not so.

I do Skid Row every night.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

I spend a fair bit of time in Los Angeles, and there is much I love about the place - the weather, the food, the beaches and the golf. And a few things I don't. Like the way an enormous number of mentally ill people seem to be forced to live on the streets with little or nothing in the way of government assistance.

I've always been a big supporter of homeless charities across the board, ever since I first moved to London.

I spent my whole life as a writer talking to just the average guy in Los Angeles and Latin America, talking to working people.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world.

Being from Oakland, you see a lot of thing. You see friends turn on friends all the time. You see family turn on family.

When I arrived in New York, I was homeless with 400 bucks in my pocket.

The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.

Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.

'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.

I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

There is no greater priority for the department whose name begins with 'housing' than dealing with houselessness .... We can do better than 1 million people sleeping in the streets.

There are no "points of light" for those who sleep on grates and park benches.

Part of the problem is the connotation that some attach to the homeless: the assumption that if you're homeless, you're going to misbehave. But not all homeless people do misbehave.

I started working at a soup kitchen in skid row of Los Angeles when I was 13 years old, and the first day, I felt really scared. I was young, and it was rough and raw down there, and though I was with a great volunteer group, I just felt overwhelmed.

My mum literally drives into Skid Row every day and manages teams that are assembled to walk around and engage with usually chronically homeless people and try to get them into permanent housing.

A homeless veteran should not have to stand at a freeway exit with a cardboard sign. That's not okay.