Vanna White Quotes

I moved to New York in 2003 with about $100 bucks in my pocket and a suitcase.

But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone's ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

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

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

In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life.

When I moved to L.A., I had nothing but a computer, a lighting set, and a suitcase.

I remember, when I first left Phoenix for L.A. I was 19, and I arrived with just $1000 to my name.

I started out in a two-room apartment in Brooklyn and thought, 'Never again.'

I spent 2010-2012 in Stockholm, trying to figure things out. I caught up on life! At the end of 2012, the relationship I was in ended, and I took the first plane to L.A. where my Swedish label has been setting up base. I felt so much more inspired to write and record than I had ever been, and the songs just started coming.

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.

My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.

I moved to Hawaii from Inglewood, New Jersey. I had planned on retiring there.

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15.

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

I met my wife, I had no money, I had nothing, and I started my family without really, my career was nowhere, but I had these other businesses, I had these things I was doing to be able to afford a small home.

I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

Back on Nov. 23, 1963, I sailed into Manhattan Harbor onboard the Queen Mary and landed with no job and contacts and just $135 in my pocket. My first lodging was in a rundown hotel for $27 a week with the bathroom down the end of a corridor of beds.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, 'Heads - Miami, tails - California. I was in my mid-20s and came out here with no training. Acting wasn't even in my mind.