Caroll Spinney Quotes

I slept on a friend's kitchen floor for a year and a half.

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.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

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 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.

We didn't have much money. My whole extended family used to help us, and buy us books and food. It was hard, and there were things I didn't want to talk about. But at the end I was a happy girl.

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

My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

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

When I arrived in New York, I was homeless with 400 bucks in my pocket.

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

My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.

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

I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people - God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad - and they had very little.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

Things I didn't have in the past I try to give to kids. I know how it feels not to have things. We were poor, but we had enough food to eat. It was a big family, four kids, and it was not like you could just go and buy something. But we had the essentials, the food.

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

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 have been down and out, living in Brooklyn, no money even for a subway, no food whatsoever. Like, I remember just sitting in my room all day - even my television wasn't working!

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

We couldn't afford anything. Suitcase, clothes, everything, Barellan people bought for me.

When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.