Anita Dobson Quotes

I come from nothing.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I come from nothing. I come from sleeping in the kitchen with my family with the oven open to keep us warm during winter, you know? When you come from that background, all this extra stuff is just... extra stuff, you know?

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

We weren't the most fortunate family growing up.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.

I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

I grew up poor.

Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

I know what it is to have nothing.

There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and hungry for most of my youth. I washed the sheets in the bathtub in my bedroom and hung them out of the window on the clothes line, which in winter was difficult as the sheets would freeze and get stuck to the line.

I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

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

I come from a poor family.