Poverty quotes

“- Drix: Where did you study?
- Osmosis Jones: Study? When you grow up on the wrong side of the digestive track, you ain't got no money for no fancy schools.”
David Hyde Pierce - Drix
Chris Rock - Osmosis Jones

“- David Jacobs: Jack, I was only joking. We can't go on strike, we don't have a union.
- Jack Kelly: But, if we go on strike, then we are a union, right?
- David Jacobs: No! We're just a bunch of angry kids with no money.”
David Moscow - David Jacobs
Christian Bale - Jack Kelly

“- Preston: Wyatt, I'm broke. I can't live on nothing.
- Wyatt: And I can't live on ten-percent of nothing.
- Preston: You're a monster.
- Wyatt: I'm an agent. For an agent, being a monster is just credentials.”
James Remar - Preston
Robert Klein - Wyatt

“White people got more in common with colored people then they do with rich people.”

Warren Beatty - Jay Bulworth

“- Helen Downing: I hate being poor.
- Vince Barnes: Agh... we've still got each other babe. They say our love won't pay the rent; before its earned our money's all been spent. I got you babe... woah, hey, now... I got you babe.”

Annie Potts - Helen Downing
Tim Thomerson - Vince Barnes

“- Billy Kwan: That's the real Jakarta. Scrounging for a few handfuls of rice to keep them alive another day. That's a story you journalists don't tell in your reports.
- Guy Hamilton: Well, nobody wants to hear it.
- Billy Kwan: Tell them anyway!”
Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan
Mel Gibson - Guy Hamilton

“- Princess Evie: So you rob from the rich, and give to the poor?
- Deathstalker: No, I rob from the rich, and pretty much keep it for myself.”
Monique Gabrielle - Princess Evie
John Terlesky - Deathstalker

“Dad, you used to fly 747s, and now you deliver toilet paper.”
Vincent Kartheiser - Sean Barnes

“You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone.”
Bill Murray - Herman Blume

“I wonder what they're all doing tonight. The poor people of the world, I mean.”
James Woods - Lenny Brown

“- Coach Finstock: He wanted to drop off the team. His mother was a widow, all crippled up. She was scrubbing floors. She had this pin in her hip. So he wanted to drop basketball and get a job. Now these were poor people, these were hungry people with real problems. Understand what I'm saying?
- Scott Howard: What happened to the kid?
- Coach...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jay Tarses - Coach Finstock
Michael J. Fox - Scott Howard

“Poor man's truth serum: caffeine and sugar.”
Joe Mantegna - Det. Sgt. Denillo

“In this world, even a Soviet one, there will always be rich and poor. Rich in gifts, poor in gifts. Rich in love, poor in love.”
Joseph Fiennes - Commisar Danilov

“- John L. Sullivan: I'm going out on the road to find out what it's like to be poor and needy and then I'm going to make a picture about it.
- Sullivan's Butler: If you'll permit me to say so, sir, the subject is not an interesting one. The poor know all about poverty and only the morbid rich would find the topic glamorous.”
Joel McCrea - John L. Sullivan
Robert Greig - Sullivan's Butler

“- Karen: Would you still love me if I was poor?
- John: You are poor.
- Karen: You're right.
- John: But you're rich in character and you have great boobs.”
Demi Moore - Karen Simmons
Emilio Estevez - John Wisdom

“- Ringwald: If that scooter's not back on your front lawn in two days...
- Billie Jean: We live in Breeze Haven...
- Ringwald: All right, in front of your trailer... you give us a call, we'll... drag in the fucker.”

Peter Coyote - Ringwald
Helen Slater - Billie Jean

“You know most people are only two paychecks away from the streets? Did you know that?”
Bentley Mitchum - Ricky Chambers

“- Professor Henry Higgins: You mean to say you'd sell your daughter for fifty pounds?
- Colonel Hugh Pickering: Have you no morals, man?
- Alfred P. Doolittle: Nah. Nah, can't afford 'em, guv'nor. Neither could you, if you was as poor as me.”
Rex Harrison - Professor Henry Higgins
Wilfrid Hyde-White - Colonel Hugh Pickering
Stanley Holloway - Alfred P. Doolittle

“- Judy Jetson: Thanks, Dad. You're outer-galactic.
- George Jetson: Yeah, I'm out of money too.”
Tiffany - Judy Jetson
George O'Hanlon - George Jetson

You know, so much of the time we're just lost. We say, "Please, God, tell us what is right; tell us what is true". And there is no justice: the rich win, the poor are powerless.
Paul Newman - Frank Galvin

“Free food for the poor!”
John Cusack - Caspar

“I ain't got nothing, but you can always have half!”
Chico Marx - Antonio Pirelli

“I don't mind living in Watts, but do we have to live in the poor section?”
George Segal - Walter Whitney

“Is there any boy in this class who thinks he's perfect? If so, raise your hands. Is there any boy here now who has money galore to be spending on shoes? Raise your hands. No. There are boys in this class who have no shoes at all and it's not their fault. It's not their shame. Our lord died shoeless! You don't see our lord hanging on the cross...” (continue)(continue reading)

“- Ella Tate: We're not rich, we're not poor.
- Wesley Tate: What are we, then?
- Ella Tate: Somewhere in between.”
Kathy Bates - Ella Tate
Henry Thomas - Wesley Tate