I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.
When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me. But it was definitely a struggle to get through life and get through school.
I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.
Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.
I didn't have money growing up.
At the time me and X met, we weren't homeless, but we were basically homeless.
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.
It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.
People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.
When I was a kid, our family was not that rich.
I was poor my whole life.
I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.
I had a year, where... I was secretly, 100 percent, dead broke.
I may have been in financial difficulties, but I'm not a pauper.
I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.
I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.
I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.
I don't come from family money, and neither does my husband.
We were living in a tough situation, but my mother managed; she juggled. Sometimes we'd pay the light bill, sometimes we paid the phone, sometimes the gas went off.
We didn't grow up rich people.
I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Riches' was my first major success.
I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.
My parents were very strapped for cash when we were growing up.
