Anton du Beke Quotes

All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

We called ourselves '2 Too Many' because we only had enough money for one of us.

Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot of money on clothing or furniture, I think 'I can't spend so much money on one thing; my poor old Daddy could have raised his family five years on that!'

My parents didn't want us on the streets or in trouble, so they thought the best thing was to have us work. I saw how we had to, during bad times, stretch the dollar. And during good times, we couldn't spend it, because you never knew when the bad times were going to happen again. It gave me a great respect for how hard it is to make money.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He was a chartered accountant for Price Waterhouse. He was strict, and we had a very ordered life. To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'

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.

My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.

When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

I don't come from money.

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

My parents didn't have any money.

I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.