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I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

I tried all my life to make housing affordable. The more affordable the house, the more money I make.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.

I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

I might have had a tough break; but I have an awful lot to live for.

I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.