Keren Woodward Quotes

Mum obviously did not earn much money to feed me and my siblings. She worked hard to raise us, but there was always something missing.

Moving to Mumbai was difficult, as survival was a major concern. I was not from a very well-to-do family.

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

Being a hungry artist, you don't have the luxury of buying whatever you want. There were years of me doing a lot of odd jobs, this and that just to make ends meet.

My parents used to struggle to put food on our plates. Whatever little money they got, we had to make do with it.

I remember my mother and I sitting down counting off our pennies to pay our bills. We really had nothing.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.

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

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.

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've always been the person to look at any turmoil as temporary. I recall times where my mom was working five and six jobs, and there's still no food in the house.

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

I was working maybe four different jobs just to make ends meet. I was really broke. I could barely pay rent. I didn't have a car. I was riding my bike from one job to another and then to audition in between.

I was poor my whole life.

I've been poor most of my life.

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

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.

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

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

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