Giancarlo Esposito Quotes

I was from this small town, and my parents were poor.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

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.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.

The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

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.

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

My parents didn't have any money.

Most people are poor at some time in their lives. But poverty is no excuse for committing crime.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.

I grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

I didn't have life that good coming up. I wasn't born with a lot of money. We weren't dirt poor, but we weren't rich. All I knew was struggle.

With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.

I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.