Johnny Flynn Quotes

I've lived in poverty.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

I've known what it's like to survive without a steady job. Growing up in the Philippines, I watched my parents juggle part-time jobs at the corner shop and as tailors, barely able to make ends meet for my three brothers and me.

Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.

I was struggling, I was hungry, I was a freelance copy editor but had very little work.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

I worked out; I moved 16 times from the age of 19, just hopping about from different flats, because I couldn't always afford to stay.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

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

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.

I remember having to quit school and quit my job. I just sort of moved all my stuff into other people's places. Within, like, six months, I was able to earn enough money from touring to rent a place again.

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.

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.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

I grew up in New York City during the Depression. My earliest recollections were of my parents talking about what they would do if they didn't have the rent money. Luckily, we were never evicted. But my father was unemployed most of the time.