Troy Carter Quotes

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

Yeah, I came over to Cambridge with 500 quid in my pocket and I had to borrow a waistcoat off another Australian player. I couldn't afford to buy one.

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 were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

I am from a poor background in Portugal. We were medium-down, not down-and-out. My parents felt problems around food in the past but they made sure I did not miss anything. But there was nothing extra, no luxuries.

We were poor and lived modestly, but we always had food on the table.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

I used to live off of nothing.

I used to scrimp with Judy in one-room apartments.

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

When I was studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse, I would overdraft my bank account and not have enough money to buy groceries. But I also discovered how to cook with very limited resources.

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

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

Because we had no money when I was growing up, when I started dancing, I wasn't allowed to be frivolous - my mum made me go to every lesson because she was paying for it.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.

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 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.

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.