Alex Wolff Quotes

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

Sometimes, you have to remind yourself that some people are just trying to find something to eat.

I know what it's like to be hungry. I know what it's like to be homeless. I know what it's like to have to choose between breaking the law and feeding yourself. I know what it's like to take meals at shelters and at Salvation Army facilities. I know what it's like to beg for money on the streets.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

I don't believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.

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.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

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

Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

There were days when my father didn't have money for food, and we slept hoping the next day something could be got from work.

You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.

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.

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

…it would be much better to enable every man to earn his own living, instead of being driven to the awful necessity of stealing and then dying for it.

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

There is no dignity without work. You can't tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.

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

None of us want to ever face a choice between putting food on the table or paying rent.

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.

We were poor and lived modestly, but we always had food on the table.

I would take vouchers, do sums in my head just to get some eggs and bread or a tin of cheap Irish stew. I'd be starving and want two tins but couldn't afford it. The poorer you are the hungrier you feel.

We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep me going but they would wear out. I was virtually on the breadline.