Jack Steinberger Quotes

When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

l had a job, and if you had a job in the depression you were rich.

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

I've lived through the Great Depression.

I finished school in 1981 when there was a recession on so there was not a lot of money around or work. I worked on building sites during that time and there were many people on the dole or always looking for work.

With the recession, people are having to choose between their cable and their internet connection. And think about it.

It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and one could live on a pretty low income. One could live well below the poverty line and not suffer immensely.

Unemployment is painful.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

A recession forces excruciatingly difficult choices.

Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.

Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today.

I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.

The economics of life is against the family.

I was doing shows and flying economy, and nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I'd get in, there wasn't any room service. I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose. You'd be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

My father's money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job.

I have a lot of hard-working, blue-collar people in my district who are at the end of their unemployment benefits.

We don't make enough in our job to live the way that we would want to and to have the support that we would need. Most of our income doesn't even come from our salary from our employer and we have to find income from other places.

Money and success haven't really changed my beliefs or opinions over the years. When I was growing up, my mum and dad split when I was 13 or 14, during the early-Nineties recession. At that time, my dad went bankrupt, and it played a huge part in it all at home.

New York reminds me of what my career was like when I lived here, so when I walk through the streets, I remember when I had ten bucks in my pocket and all I could eat is Chipotle.

I did all kind of jobs to sustain myself. I worked at a grocery store, in the public health department, and what was then Thomas Cook and Sons. The last job was particularly interesting, but I got fired from it.

When I was growing up, I heard horror stories about producers losing their houses overnight. No matter who the family is, hearing of them getting evicted is very sad.