Poverty quotes

“Do you know that the pizza in southern Italy is the dish of the poor? I come to America and see pizza signs everywhere. So I think America not so rich after all. Then I find eating pizza here is like eating hot dog - it's for fun.”
Sophia Loren

“Every day they are told they are worthless, beyond hope.”

Marisa Tomei - Gwen Kolinsky

“Don't worry about me having dinner, I'll just lick the crumbs off my filthy sheets!”
Jessica Lundy - Bernice

“I am not a bum. I'm a jerk. I once had wealth, power, and the love of a beautiful woman. Now I only have two things: my friends, and... uh... my thermos.”
Steve Martin - Navin

“- Robin Hood: The poor are going to be absolutely thrilled. Have you met them at all?
- Randall: Who?
- Robin Hood: The poor.
- Randall: The poor?
- Robin Hood: Oh you must meet them. I'm sure you'll like them. Of course they haven't got two pennies to rub together but that's because they're poor.”
John Marwood Cleese - Robin Hood
David Rappaport - Randall

“Wishing a Van Gogh was mine, I looked at my English hand-lasted shoes, and thought of Van Gogh's tragic shoes, and remembered me I was a painter losing a painting.”
Donald Sutherland - Flan

“I'm one of the underserving poor, that's what I am. Now, think what that means to a man. It means he's up against middle-class morality for all the time. If there's anything going, and I put in for a bit of it, it's always the same story: you're undeserving, so you can't have it.”
Stanley Holloway - Alfred P. Doolittle

“After the war, we had very bad years in Germany. We got poorer and poorer. Every day retired officers or schoolteachers were caught shoplifting.”
Anton Walbrook - Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff

“- Frank Rittenhauer: If this factory goes under, the whole town goes under.
- Boardroom Lady: That's when the whores come in.
- Paul Barish: Excuse me, what was that?
- Boardroom Lady: Men laying their trick-money down. Twenty dollars to pay the rent? Maybe not. Maybe instead I'll spend it on the whore.”
Sean McCann - Frank Rittenhauer
Helen Hughes - Boardroom Lady
Rob Lowe - Paul Barish

“- Henry: I'm broke. Can't buy another drink.
- Wanda: You mean you don't have any money?
- Henry: No money, no job, no rent. Hey, I'm back to normal.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry
Faye Dunaway - Wanda Wilcox

“That philanthropic cocksucker left all the money to the poor and not a dirty dime to me! Oh, Mary, Mother of God, what have I ever done to you? Life... without money is no goddamned life at all! You know that!”

Dana Ivey - Mrs. Essendine

“When I was a kid, we were so poor... that the roaches was on welfare.”
Chris Rock - Lance Barton

Would we visit you and sit in your gorgeous house, planning visits to the townships, demanding to see the poorest of the poor? "Oh, are you sure they're the worst off? I mean, we've come all this way. I mean, we don't want to see people just mildly victimized by apartheid. We demand shock". You know it doesn't seem right, sitting on the East... (continue)(continue reading)

Stockard Channing - Ouisa

“- Mr. Bailey: You go to high school in Inglewood. You think you're going to get into Harvard?
- Malcolm: I'm from a poor, crime-filled neighborhood, raised by a single mother, don't know my dad, blah, blah. It's cliche.”
Bruce Beatty - Mr. Bailey
Shameik Moore - Malcolm

“Poor people are crazy, Jack. I'm eccentric.”
Dennis Hopper - Howard Payne

“A morsel of bread is more precious to man than a mountain of diamonds and gold, amen.”
Alan Rickman - Grigori Rasputin

“A woman's poverty is a slavery even more harsh than a man's.”
Frances O'Connor - Fanny Price

“If you see poverty as a revolutionary virtue, go and join Robespierre.”
Gérard Depardieu - Danton

“Alaska is a Third World country. It's just one we happen to own.”
Shari Shattuck - Liles

“I'm clothing rich and money poor.”
Hope Davis - Emily Essendine

“As you can see, I got my black ass back in the ghetto: the only place you can get robbed by Santa Clause on Christmas Eve.”
Ice Cube - Craig Jones

“- Hudson Junior: Where will you go?
- Rosie: My nana has kindly invited me to London town to stay with her and be a prostitute.
- Hudson Junior: You are indeed fortunate to have such an understanding family.
- Rosie: If you're ever passin', do pop in. Like her and me mam and me sister, I hope to bear many illegitimate children into abject poverty.”
Frank Finlay - Hudson Junior
Anna Livia Ryan - Rosie

“- Maria: But I don't have another one. When we entered the abbey our worldly clothes were given to the poor.
- Captain von Trapp: What about this one?
- Maria: The poor didn't want this one.”
Julie Andrews - Maria
Christopher Plummer - Captain von Trapp

“In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.”
Gael García Bernal

“There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood.”
Bernard Hill