Brie Larson Quotes

I used to live off of nothing.

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

I was living on a loaf of bread a week.

My wife, Sharon, and I started with nothing when we got married. I was driving a 1902 Pinto and eating off a card table.

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.

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.

We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.

When you're poor, an egg sandwich is dinner and you cut your potatoes with a butter knife.

Where I grew up, there were times when we didn't have anything to eat.

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

I grew up with very little. I remember vividly using buckets of water to shower.

I grew up in Plaza East public housing in the Western Addition, five of us living on $900 per month. 'Recycling' meant drinking out of old mayonnaise jars.

I come from a family where some nights you don't know where food's going to come from. There's nights where you're going to have go to bed hungry.

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

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.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.

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

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

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.

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

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

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

When a poor man has bread, he has no salt, and when he has salt, he has no bread. If he has some seasoning he has no meat. If he has some meat, he has no seasoning.

I come from nothing. I come from sleeping in the kitchen with my family with the oven open to keep us warm during winter, you know? When you come from that background, all this extra stuff is just... extra stuff, you know?