Jeffrey Donovan Quotes

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.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

I didn't have money growing up.

I come from a family of eight on public assistance, my parents were separated. My mother struggled, my father struggled.

My parents divorced, my brothers and I ended up living with my mother, and we were living with the choice of heating or eating. My mum was working, but she needed financial support to make ends meet. I had to have free school dinners and free school uniforms.

My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.

I've never had money before in my life. Ever. Never, ever.

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.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

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.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

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

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

Truman didn't have enough money to make a radio speech.

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

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.