35 Movie Quotes about Poverty with AudioUpdated: Aug 18, 2026Browse clips, ranked by user ratings. Listen online or download free MP3 and WAV clips. 1 Oh, no! Por favor! Please, I implore you! It was nothing personal, Senor. I was doing it only for my family. My mother, she is sick. And my father lives off the garbage! Antonio Banderas as Puss In Boots in Shrek 2 2 Think of what all those walls are hiding. Broken hopes and bodies and hearts. Absent dreams. Starvation, madness. Crimes of the streets. And tragedies of the river. Quote from Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) 3 Where we came from, if one didn't want to die of poverty, one became a priest or a bandit. Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 4 I have not little, Sephora. I have nothing. Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956) 5 These are some of the poorest people I know. They're broker than... the ten commandments. Burt Reynolds as Charlie B. Barkin in All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) 6 The mill's closed. There's no more work. We're destitute. Come in, my little loves. I've got no option but to sell you all, for scientific experiments. Michael Palin in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 7 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 8 We're poor, see? That's all there is to it. -Huh! I don't like it. And 'cause I'm a man, I'm doing something about it. Quote from Yoga and the Kung Fu Girl (1979) 9 I've got a quarter and some lint. Quote from Darkwing Duck (1991) 10 The money's getting shorter every day, and pretty soon we're right back where we were: on the bum again, pushing guys for dimes and sleeping around in freight cars. Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Page 1 of 4 1 2 3 ► >>