45 Movie Quotes about Poor People (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 We're what? -We're flat broke. -Does that mean we haven't any money?

Stan Laurel as Stan; Oliver Hardy as Ollie in Swiss Miss (1938)

22 For it is my sincere conviction that the only way to be happy is to be poor.

Vincent Price as Burnbridge Waters in Champagne for Caesar

23 Oh, if only I had a team of horses instead of a dog and a duck.

Paul Frees in Jack Frost (1979)

24 You'll find it's not easy to live poor.

Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton in The Remains of the Day

25 Could you lend me a dime? I just want to dial the operator. -No. Well, why not? -Because I ain't got a dime.

Sondra Locke as Antoinette Lily; Hank Worden as Station Mechanic in Bronco Billy

26 Ooh, what you doing under that taxi? -It ran over me. -You must be rich... I can only afford to be run over by buses.

Spike Milligan as Eccles; Peter Sellers as Spike Milligan; Peter Sellers as Bluebottle in The Goon Show

27 And just think... no more worry. That's the only terrible thing about being poor.

Linda Darnell as Betty in Christmas in July (1944)

28 Right now, his physical assets total about 95 cents. And spiritually, well there's more starch in your laundry bag!

Lionel Barrymore as Narrator in Christmas in July (1944)

29 What do you mean you haven't got any more money? What have I been talkin' for? To hear my own voice?

Barbara Stanwyck as Lee Leander in Remember the Night (1940)

30 They're desperate and will do anything for a cup of coffee.

Barbara Stanwyck in Meet John Doe (1941)

45 Movie Quotes about Poor People (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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