Acting Quote by Viola Davis

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt…

— Sherman Alexie

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

— Pat Barker

I had done a lot of indie movies before I realized that acting could be a way for me to get my family out…

— Coco Martin

I was exposed to acting at a young age. I was very lucky to grow up in that environment.

— Sam Lloyd

Poverty took me from being the girl who was always the lead in the school play, to a woman who can't open her own…

— Jack Monroe

I grew up in poverty as a child, my parents had me when they were very young. They didn't have money growing up.

— Wes Streeting

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of…

— Anonymous

When we were kids, the work we did wasn't about acting. It was about pleasing people and making kids smile.

— Mary-Kate Olsen

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

— Tupac Shakur

Acting came from growing up in dysfunction. I mean, a lot of great times, but a lot of dysfunction.

— Viola Davis

I feel like there's a dangerous culture among young actors of going to posey joints and socialising - not doing hard work. I don't…

— Will Poulter

As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should…

— Jackie Shroff