My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.
Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.
I wasn't rich.
My childhood was great, my family was great. I wasn't in a mansion, but we made it work.
My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.
With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.
I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich.
We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.
I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
It's not been a bad life, and I do know that I could never have been a world champion. All I ever wanted to do was be the best I could with what I had, which wasn't very much, really. And that's what I think I did.
I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.
This is not a family of privilege by any stretch of the imagination. Our family is very low key.
I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
I lead a simple life. I get residuals. I have a family; we're doing alright.
My mother is the one who taught me to be a lady by her actions. I observed the way that she dressed and the way that she carried herself. And both my grandmothers, they were women of very modest means. But they were also ladies.
I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
Little wealth, little care.
I was utterly without worldly ambition because I knew that all that was needed for a rich, full life was a few shillings a week with which to buy SF magazines and beer.
In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.
I have no limo. In cities, I usually hail a taxi like everyone else.
I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.
I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.
I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving; I was going to eat the next day.
We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
