Jerome Jarre Quotes

When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though.

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

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.

For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.

I was living in my van, playing on the street for almost two years.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

At one stage, I didn't have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn't uncommon in the 1950s, and it wasn't uncommon to be out of money. There wasn't anywhere to go to get money.

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

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

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.

The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world.

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.

A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.

I do Skid Row every night.

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

There are thousands on thousands in New York who have no assignable home.