Alice Levine Quotes

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.

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

Very few people can afford to be poor.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

nothing more afflicts the mind of man than Poverty

My mom was a hairstylist, but she quit doing that to raise the kids - there were four of us. There was no money.

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

Too often, low-income Americans must choose between paying for medicine and having their heat shut off.

I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

In my sophomore year of high school, I watched my friend Loretta leave in a U-Haul headed for Oakland. She and her mom had been tenants in a nearby apartment, forced out by rent they couldn't afford anymore.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

After graduating from high school, even though I was working, I didn't have enough money to pay rent, so I stayed with my Nana.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

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

I didn't have money growing up.