28 Movie Quotes about Poverty (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Aug 24, 2025

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

11 What a way to go through life: living out of trash cans, eating leftover leftovers.

Mel Blanc as Sylvester The Cat in Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement

12 It'll all be going out, and nothing coming in to live on.

Paul Winfield as Mr. Eskridge in The Greatest (1977)

13 Look, I mean, I don't care about that. I've been broke longer than I've been rich. I mean, I can adjust to that. -We'll see.

Muhammad Ali in The Greatest (1977)

14 Take a look at us! The food we eat tastes terrible! Our clothes are secondhand! And all we do is work!

Quote from Yoga and the Kung Fu Girl (1979)

15 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)

16 Besides, how can a monk carry money? I have nothing. -Get lost then.

Quote from The Legendary Strike (1978)

17 Because I'm an orphan. I have never worn any brand new clothes. Never slept on beds. Just floors.

Quote from The Deadly Breaking Sword (1979)

18 Hey, take a look around this neighborhood, mister. Who do you think got money for a chauffeur? Not even for food he got money.

Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune in Rocky Fortune

19 The poor don't cheat one another. We're all poor together.

Keefe as Jerry Manning in The Leopard Man (1943)

20 There were nine of us. I was the oldest. Blew their noses for 'em, scrubbed 'em, doctored 'em. Everybody living in the one room. Swill pile, that's what it was.

Patricia Knight as Jenny Marsh in Shockproof (1949)

28 Movie Quotes about Poverty (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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