RJ Cyler Quotes

I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

As the oldest I was a daddy's girl and loved him with all my heart. My daddy had holes in his shoes so that he could pay for my photography classes, you know what I mean.

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.

Any of us can sort of say we would do any number of things to feed our children.

When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.

Mum obviously did not earn much money to feed me and my siblings. She worked hard to raise us, but there was always something missing.

Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.

I have been devoted to my son, and there have been lots of jobs in the past that I haven't done because I didn't want to be away from him.

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.

Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.

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

The stress and turmoil that my father had to go through at a young age to make sure that I didn't have the same trials and tribulations, I couldn't be more grateful.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

My mom had five kids. And she came home after working three jobs, and I'd rub her feet. We'd all rub her feet. We were lucky to get any time with her.

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

My family background has always been very supportive. They're going to be there for me no matter what.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.

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.

When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.