Poverty quotes

“Maybe I'm not such a high-class piece of property right now. And a 25% slice of something big is better than a 100% slice of nothing.”
Paul Newman - Eddie Felson

“When you're poor, no one wants to know you.”
Marla Landi - Cecile

“It's a lesson to remember: without money, you might as well be dead.”
Mickey Shaughnessy - Hunk Houghton

“- Vince Everett: I'm broke. I'll never accumulate any cigarettes.
- Hunk Houghton: The State pays you 18 cents a day and that's a start.”
Elvis Presley - Vince Everett
Mickey Shaughnessy - Hunk Houghton

“- Hunk Houghton: I was singin' country music before the words were invented. And I was on stage with the best of 'em. Eddy Arnold. Roy Acuff.
- Vince Everett: Did you make good money?
- Hunk Houghton: I made two bills a week. I was swimmin' in gravy in those days.
- Vince Everett: Okay, get on to the sad part.
- Hunk Houghton: A woman and a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Mickey Shaughnessy - Hunk Houghton
Elvis Presley - Vince Everett

“The main thing is to have the money. I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better.”
Gloria Grahame - Debby Marsh

“You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If you're honest you're poor your whole life and in the end you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star.”
Lon Chaney Jr. - Martin Howe

“Don't you know the finest things in the world have been written on an empty stomach.”
Lloyd Gough - Morino

“- St. Francis of Assisi: I want to be a beggar! Yes, yes a beggar. Christ was a beggar, His Holy Apostles were beggars. I want to be as free as they are.
- Pietro Di Bernardone: But Your Grace, even beggars show respect to their fathers!
- St. Francis of Assisi: I'm not your son anymore. What is born of flesh is flesh, what is born of spirit...” (continue)(continue reading)
Graham Faulkner - St. Francis of Assisi
Lee Montague - Pietro Di Bernardone

“Work is a curse, Saturno. Down with work that you have to do to survive. That work isn't honorable, as some say. All it does is fatten the exploiting swine. However, what you do for pleasure ennobles man. If only we could all work like that. Look at me, I'd rather be hanged than work! So, I live poorly, but I live without working.”
Fernando Rey - Don Lope

“Of all the miseries that afflict humanity, nothing maddens me more than the lack of money.”
Oscar Isaac - Paul Gauguin

“- Marina Mari: I know what poverty is and it scares me. Sure, I could have married a streetcar driver and be starving to death today - me, my children and him.
- Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris: Poor Marina. You think happiness means a fancy apartment, nice clothes, a maid, and rich lovers?
- Marina Mari: If you'd really loved me, you'd...” (continue)(continue reading)
Maria Michi - Marina Mari
Marcello Pagliero - Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris

- Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris: Does she live with you?
- Pina: She's my sister.
- Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris: Your sister?
- Pina: Surprised, huh? I wonder what lies she's told you about where she lives. She's ashamed of us "starving workers." Says she's an artist. But I wouldn't trade places with her. Not because she's bad.... (continue)(continue reading)

Marcello Pagliero - Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris
Anna Magnani - Pina

“My name is Bruno Houtenfaust. I was named for a Saint who was a very wealthy man. He had the wine, the women, the songs, the whole bit, and then inexplicably, took a vow of poverty and became a hermit. Ran off to live in the forest, in the nude.”
Val Kilmer - Simon Templar

“Anybody who tells you money is the root of all evil doesn't fucking have any.”
Ben Affleck - Jim Young

“I have a feeling in a few years people are going to be doing what they always do when the economy tanks. They will be blaming immigrants and poor people.”
Steve Carrell - Mark Baum

“- Helen Downing: I hate being poor.
- Vince Barnes: We've still got each other babe.”

Annie Potts - Helen Downing
Tim Thomerson - Vince Barnes

“Some people will have, some simply will not, but they'll complain and complain and complain and complain and complain. Some people will work, some never will, but they'll complain and complain and complain and complain and complain.”

Tim Robbins - Bob Roberts

“- Wilma Flintstone: This has gone far enough! After everything that we've done for you! We took you into our home!
- Betty Rubble: Oh, yeah, so you could show off every chance you got. You used to be such nice people but now... you're just a couple of rich snobs! Hmph!”
Elizabeth Perkins - Wilma Flintstone
Rosie O'Donnell - Betty Rubble

“These are some of the poorest people I know. They're more broke than the Ten Commandments.”
Burt Reynolds - Charlie B. Barkin

“- Mrs. Potter: I don't think you'd love me if I were poor.
- Hammer: I might, but I'd keep my mouth shut.”
Margaret Dumont - Mrs. Potter
Groucho Marx - Hammer

“In every war, there is an enemy. I watched my mother being half-beaten to death, and watched as blood and tears streamed down her face. I felt useless and scared, and furious at the same time.”
Vanetta Smith - Brandy Ross

“- Aladdin: I wonder what it'd be like to live there, and have servants, and valets.
- Princess Jasmine: Oh, sure. People who tell you where to go and how to dress.
- Aladdin: That's better than here. You're always scraping for food and ducking the guards.
- Princess Jasmine: You're not free to make your own choices.”

Scott Weinger - Aladdin
Linda Larkin - Princess Jasmine

“Nothing's gonna make it go away, until someone changes something, which is not going to happen. I can't pretend it isn't there because that it is a lie, and when art lies, it becomes worthless.”

Steve Martin - Davis

“I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.”
Sir Michael Caine