Glen Taylor Quotes

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

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

I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.

There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.

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.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

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.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

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.

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

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

I was 20 years old. My entire possessions consisted of $5 and a sewing machine.

I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

My mom had to be resourceful. She grew up dirt poor in rural Louisiana.

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have many options.

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

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

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

When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.