Anne-Marie Duff Quotes

The life I live due to my work is difficult to share.

In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

I recall the hard work that my family went through just to continue to live the lifestyle that we were living, which wasn't by any means a great lifestyle.

It is much better for a poor man in this country than it is in Ireland. But if the Irish immigrants knew how hard they would have to work in the first 6 months in this county, few would ever come here.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

Workers all too frequently have been taking it on the chin. They're working hard and falling behind, all too frequently.

I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.

I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.

It's just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I've been there.

I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

I worked with women who were nurses and workers, women who worked in hotels, janitors who basically cleaned buildings, worked two jobs just to support their family. And, it really taught me a lot about how much opportunity I had to do anything I wanted to with my life.

I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

It wasn't easy to get the family to this point. I had to work two jobs. I had all nine kids. I stayed there with them and got them all into show biz. I don't care what anyone else said, I did my job.

You can work for 10 years without making it... we aren't actually all living in mansions.

My family was very poor. Strangely, though, my father was an enigma in that he was always working. He was not a ne'er-do-well. He wasn't lazy. He just couldn't hold on to money. It just, it was an enigma for him. He just, his pockets were always empty.

It's very hard being a mother or father and not being able to provide for your family. Your job as a parent is to keep them safe and protect them, and when aspects of that are taken away it puts these people in an awful situation.

Growing up, we never really had money. If I wanted to get something, I had to go out and get a job.

I came to cinema for money. I had to settle a loan of Rs 10 lakh. I had no other go, so I thought I'd try my luck in films. I was earning Rs 25,000 at that time. It was not even enough for my family.

My parents worked hard, sometimes two jobs, to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table.

We work too hard to be miserable.

I know what it's like to be a teenager in Orange County. I know what it's like to be a kid in L.A. I know what it's like to not have any money and have your lights turned off. I know what it's like to live in a house with five rooms.

I used to work from 7 A.M. till 3 A.M.

My family didn't really have newspapers at home or talk about politics - my family are not political. They were too busy getting on with it - working, looking after kids, trying to pay off the mortgage, all that stuff.