Jason Pierre-Paul Quotes

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

There are schoolteachers around the country that work second jobs after their teaching duties are done: one woman in North Dakota I spoke to was heading off to clean houses after the final bell in order to pay her rent.

We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.

I was working maybe four different jobs just to make ends meet. I was really broke. I could barely pay rent. I didn't have a car. I was riding my bike from one job to another and then to audition in between.

My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we'd struggle.

I grew up in a family where my parents worked full-time and still found themselves and their six children trapped like so many of the working poor.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

My parents weren't rich at all.

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.

I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

I grew up poor.

I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.