Frank Lowy Quotes

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.

When I was around 18, I got kicked out of my parents' house, and I wasn't allowed to take anything with me. I slept on YMCA towels for a whole semester in university before my father found out and bought me a mattress. I felt really free because I was finally living on my own, but I was also really depressed because I had nothing.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and hungry for most of my youth. I washed the sheets in the bathtub in my bedroom and hung them out of the window on the clothes line, which in winter was difficult as the sheets would freeze and get stuck to the line.

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

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

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.

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

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

I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room... there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.

I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.

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

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.

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

I became bitter, hard, cold. I was always on a panic - couldn't buy clothes or a good place to live.

It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.

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!

After you've cut back everything else, food is the last to go. I didn't mind putting an extra jumper on if I had food in the fridge. It was the point where I had an extra jumper on and no food in the fridge that I realised things had gone badly wrong.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

I've had success, but I'm still haunted by the fear of being hungry. Once you've lived it it never leaves you.

We came from nothing really. One house. Ten people. Even days the lights was off. The worst days was not eating. Surviving off rice and toast.

A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.