Poverty quotes

“1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.”
Ronald Francis Perlman

“I'm going through a vicious divorce at the moment and will soon be penniless.”
Eric Bana - Martin Rose

“- Emma Tate: We do not belong to the starving class!
- Ella Tate: There's no such thing as a starving class.
- Emma Tate: There is so. There's a starving class people and we're not part of it!”
Kristin Fiorella - Emma Tate
Kathy Bates - Ella Tate

“There's no nobility in poverty. I've been a poor man, and I've been a rich man. And I choose rich every fucking time.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Jordan Belfort

“Wow! A dollar! Now I can quit stripping, go back to vet school, and save my sick pony.”

Alyssa Milano - Amy

“- Mitch Weaver: I'll tell ya what. I'll give you a dollar each if you'll go into this building here and run around yellin' and screamin'.
- Homeless Guy: Uh, that's very nice, but I think what you probably need are, like, some psycho, out-of-control homeless guys?
- Martin, Homeless Guy: Yeah, we're more the broken, spiritless,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Norm MacDonald - Mitch Weaver
Fred Wolf - Homeless Guy
James Downey - Martin, Homeless Guy

“Do you know what I really dislike about you, Jim? You're a rich man with a good name. You only pretend to be poor.”
Terry O'Quinn - Capt. Minardi

“It's not a little itty-bitty bean. It's an averaged sized bean. There are kids in parts of the world who would walk 50 miles through quicksand just so they could stick a toe in your swimming pool. There are kids who would eat beans because they've had nothing to eat their whole life but leaves and bark and roots.”

Ben Stiller - Tim Dingman

“When you're born in the gutter you end up in the port.”
Judith Vittet - Miette

“I'm now poor. When I say I'm poor, I mean we may have to share a helicopter with another family.”
Hugh Grant - George Wade

“If God had meant me to marry a poor man, he would have made me homely.”
Denise Richards - Cindy Styne

Maybe there's a universal law that says "Stay put. As you are, so shall you remain". Maybe that's why tramps are always in trouble. They don't vote. They don't pay taxes. They violate the law of nature...

Joel McCrea - John L. Sullivan

“- Etta Place: Sundance says it's because you're a soft touch, and always taking expensive vacations, and buying drinks for everyone, and you're a rotten gambler.
- Butch Cassidy: Well that might have something to do with it.”

Katharine Ross - Etta Place
Paul Newman - Butch Cassidy

“If God had not intended for some people to be poor, then He would not have had The Bible published in paperback.”
Andy Kaufman - Armageddon T. Thunderbird

It's a funny thing how everything keeps shoving me back to Hollywood or Beverly Hills, or this monstrosity we're riding in. Almost like gravity as if some force were saying "Get back where you belong".

Joel McCrea - John L. Sullivan

“Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed away from, even for purposes of study.”

Robert Greig - Sullivan's Butler

“- Dora Diamond: It isn't ennobling, being poor. It just makes you mean.
- Paul Tannek: Yeah, that's why all the really nice people are rich.”
Mena Suvari - Dora Diamond
Jason Biggs - Paul Tannek

“- James Gordon: Every dollar is a dollar we don't have, we're floating on credit, without a net.
- Jan Schlichtmann: Mortgaged my house, I don't care.
- James Gordon: I have, and Kevin's, and Bill's and mine, and I've cashed in our retirement plan, and our life insurance policies, it's gone.”
William H. Macy - James Gordon
John Travolta - Jan Schlichtmann

“It wasn't the first time dad went away. Ever since he'd come back from Vietnam things haven't been just right. Mom held two jobs just to make ends meet. And we were still dirt poor, like everybody else in Juliette, Mississippi. But this June morning in 1970 was different. All the flowers were in bloom, and along with the color, and sweet smell...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lexi Randall - Lidia Joanne Simmons

“For what it's worth, I never stole from anybody who would go hungry.”
Cary Grant - John Robie

“She told me they have support for people whose parents are poor, but not for those whose parents are assholes.”
C. Thomas Howell - Mark Watson

“- Shaun: Listen to me, I need Bob's pain pills!
- Lance: Bob doesn't have any pain pills.
- Shaun: Yes he does!
- Lance: Not anymore, I sold them.”
Colin Hanks - Shaun Brumder
Jack Black - Lance Brumder

“Let me tell you something, Jack. If shit was worth something, poor people would be born with no asshole.”
Eddie Murphy - Reggie Hammond

“The law is just a contract. A contract between the rich people who own everything, and the poor people who want to take it away. And the contract says, if you break the law and get away with it fine. But if you break the rules and get caught you got to play by the rules and pay the price. It's no big moral thing, you don't need ideology to knock...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeffrey Howard - Ned Rifle

“- Tom Hardy: You picked the wrong house to rob, asshole.
- Danny Detillo: Who are you kiddin', Tommy? You ain't got nothing worth stealing.”
Bruce Willis - Det. Tom Hardy
Tom Sizemore - Det. Danny Detillo