45 Movie Quotes about Poor People (+ Sound Clips)

Memorable quotes about poor people, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 If it were one man and three beans... But, no. One bean and three men.

Edgar Bergen as Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd in Fun and Fancy Free

2 Well, you realize if you give money to the poor, they won't be poor anymore, will they?

Ebenezer Scrooge; Scrooge Mcduck in Mickey Mouse

3 Just look at that miserable creature, doggedly struggling to maintain life, a gaunt, lean bag of bones and feathers. Truly a picture of despair.

Edgar Bergen as Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd in Fun and Fancy Free

4 Potatoes. You've got to be poor to eat potatoes. Really poor.

Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

5 But maybe the sound of this church bell will bring those poor people some comfort.

Brian Bedford as Robin Hood in Robin Hood (1973)

6 I have been a rich man and I have been a poor man. And I choose rich every _ing time.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street

7 Ah, he was a good one. He robbed from the widows and swindled the poor.

Ebenezer Scrooge; Scrooge Mcduck in Mickey Mouse

8 They don't even know the difference between rich and poor. The wretches!

Madeline Kahn as Gussie Mausheimer in An American Tail

9 Everybody know the poor always being _ed over by the rich. Always have, always will.

Keith David as King in Platoon

10 Merry Christmas, you say. What right have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol