Jessica Chastain Quotes

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

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.

My parents didn't have any money.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

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

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

I've been poor most of my life.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

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

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

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

I come from a poor family.

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

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

We weren't the most fortunate family growing up.

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.

I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

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