Danny Trejo Quotes

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.

In Chicago, a lot of people don't really got nothing to live for. Everybody can't ball. Everybody can't rap. Nobody is really doing those activities. There's nothing to do but the streets.

I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see it as, you know, not having many other options. I think it comes down to money and needing to survive.

When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

I was a thug.

I live in a bad neighborhood. Why, I saw two complete strangers share a taxi - yeah, one guy took the radio and the other guy took the tires.

You're either slangin' crack rock, or you got a wicked jumpshot.

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?

I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.

Watching daring, high-tech criminals in action, I have the same thought that probably occurs to other moviegoers: if these guys just held on to some of the money they spend on equipment, they wouldn't have to turn to a life of crime.

Living in Rio is dangerous sometimes.

There's crime everywhere.

Mike Tyson and I came up together in the streets, and being around people like him, I learned what goes on behind the scenes.

There are people in America who are absolutely desperate right now, who have no means to support their families, who have no opportunities to better themselves or their education - and they're not that different from the farmers and working-class people that I visited when I went to Kenya with Oxfam.

And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.

I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my head against the sidewalk. Afterwards these bums come over and say, 'Did he get much money?' I say, 'Money'? That was Bob Dylan.

Let me tell you something. When I was young, I was an armed robber. I did robberies. And there's no adrenaline rush like that. When you're using drugs and doing robberies, it's hard to distinguish whether you're doing robberies to support your drug habit, or doing drugs to support your robbery habit.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.