Tom Cruise Quotes

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

I was just a toddler when my dad died in a car crash. With my mum, Eunice, being a young widow with a large family, she really struggled money-wise.

We had to grow up very fast. There never was a day when there wasn't shouting about the bills.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.

I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

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

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

When your parents divorce, it makes you grow up fast. I'd urge parents to strongly consider working things out. I'd work things out and I'd definitely stay put.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

I remember the early days when every month I had to decide whether I should continue to lease a typewriter or if I could finally afford to buy it. Yes, that $12 a month really made a difference in our budget.

I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.

Everybody knows when you're a struggling family; you don't really know it when you're a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there's, like, this happiness.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

We don't make enough in our job to live the way that we would want to and to have the support that we would need. Most of our income doesn't even come from our salary from our employer and we have to find income from other places.

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.