Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes

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.

We had to leave Norway and go where it was all happening, which was London. We loved it there, but it was hard. We had no money - we were literally starving. It started to get ugly.

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

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

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

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.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

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 was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.

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.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

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

I grew up poor.

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

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

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.

During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.

Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.