She was envious of her classmates' lunches but too embarrassed to ask for help. She said, "I would certainly never have humiliated myself enough to reach out and ask for help and say, 'You know, I'm hungry. Can I have that apple that you're not going to eat?' I didn't have the courage to do that."
She continued, "At 26, I never knew where or when my next job was going to be. I made my clothes last as long as they could, just stretching everything out as much as possible. I would get creative with mending and buy different dress sizes and men’s items with designs. I was always reinventing my clothes, cutting jeans, sewing buttons, painting something different on my shirt or something like that. It’s a good way to have an individual style."
She continued, "They [are] real good people and whatnot; I was just raised in a bad society."
Cardi added, "I'm not the one that wanna take jets everywhere. I don't care. I'm really cool in Delta first class. That's $30,000, $20,000, on what? My ears still pop," she said.
She continued, "My family is a very selfless family because we benefited so much from all these community programs that my mom was like, 'We have to give back.' And the only way we could do that was by volunteering. We pay it forward."
Additionally, when she attended her first Cannes Film Festival in 2005, she wore an affordable dress that she purchased herself. She told People magazine, "I was like, I'll just wear this one, this knit gold, that feels right. Nobody would've known it was a $40 dress."
He also said, "I feel like you could drop me anywhere in the world, anonymously, and I'd figure out how to survive. If you stripped away everything I've got — the money, the fame, the possessions, everything — I know that I'd find a way to get along because basically, that’s what I've had to do all my life."
Maguire said, "I just never wanted to put myself in the position where my spending was so huge that I had to keep making movie after movie."
She continued, "I think because no one had any expectations that I would be successful, how could you fail? I wasn't set up — no one was like, 'Oh my god, you’re going to be…' They were just like, 'Here's your life.' And I was like, 'This is some bullshit. I want a better life than that. I don't want to be in survival mode all the time.'"
She said, "I do a lot of, like, sharing and trading with those types of things, like clothes or other home items. We try not to make anything just go to waste."
She added, "But we were very happy."
She continued, "I love to be close to my family and friends, so I spend money on plane tickets, having feasts, buying a ton of groceries and cooking, or going out for an amazing meal, knowing I don't worry about how much the bill costs."
She added, "Things weren’t easy for me growing up ... Because of my mother, I do always try to think about how something must be for someone else. I’m not so interested in myself. I’m interested in other people."
Chastain continued, "I bought a new laptop three years ago, and before I bought it, I spent a month thinking about buying it. So my lifestyle hasn’t changed, except my anxiety about paying the rent is gone."
She said, "When you're immigrants and you have to work hard for everything just to survive, it's only natural that you worry about having a stable job and income."
Kunis also said that she had a lot of financial anxiety before marrying Ashton Kutcher, who helped her manage those feelings.
She told O'Brien, "I was such an extreme, 'I'm gonna be broke tomorrow; I'm not gonna have a job' — I was always living my life ... so cautiously that it took me the longest time ... I was like, 'But we can't buy this house.' He was like, 'What are you talking about? ... I promise you, we can do this.'"
The only Beatle to come from a "solidly middle-class" family was John Lennon.
She continued, "I think that's kind of the future, and I would encourage kids to rent clothes and buy secondhand because you don’t have to always go for that quick fix. It’s way more exciting and cooler."
She told GQ, "I think that was God teaching me a lesson over and over. I wasn't paying attention the first two times."
She added, "I plan on living to at least 75. I need some money to play with."
He said, "A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven."
He added, "I drive a family car — not a monster SUV, but a family car that fits five people. I've got a house that is just big enough, too."
She added, "I was different, and that's the one thing you can't be at school, because you're ostracized. I didn't have the money these kids had."
Gellar also told CNBC Make It, "I cut coupons to this day. I'll never forget, one time I was at Bloomingdale's, and they had these coupons — Bloomingdale's has really good coupons — and I was taking them all out; I was doing holiday shopping. And someone behind me turned around and said, 'I can't believe how long you're taking. Why are you using coupons?' I remember looking at her like, Why should I pay more? Like, if there's a coupon there, I'm going to use it. Just because you're successful doesn't mean that you should be errant in your spending. I've never believed that."
He told Forbes, "I love when people say you come from 'humble beginnings.' [It] means you were poor as hell."
He continued, speaking of Perry, "It's like, 'That craft service table? We can use that in this shot.'"
She continued, "That’s probably one of the best things she did for me … She said, 'If you want to be there, then you work it out.' And I had to work it out. ... And shelter life was part of figuring it out for a minute until I could get a waitressing job. Then I got a bartending job, and until I could figure that out, that’s what I did."
Berry also said, "I am very thankful for my good fortune, but one of my biggest fears is that I could lose it all. I am not someone who has to have 10 cars and lots of diamonds."
She told Together magazine, "For me, when people say, 'Wow, you grew up in a trailer.' But it didn't feel like that. I didn't feel, 'Oh, poor me, I'm in a trailer park.' It wasn't a bad experience. I had a roof over my head and I had food, and so it wasn’t that being poor and having those experiences was a negative. The negative part of it was learning about class at such a young age, not from my friends, but from my friends' parents, who would say, 'You aren't to hang out with her.' At 6 years old, to have a parent say, 'You're not welcome in our home, you need to go.' Or, 'You can't play with my son or daughter.' Now I see children, I just think, How could anyone do something like that?"
Swank added, "People [who see me shopping with coupons] just go, 'Wow! You do it, too? Cool!'"
She continued, "I remember my childhood as Dickensian. I remember being poor. There was no great way to hide it. We didn't have electricity sometimes. We didn't have Christmases sometimes, or we didn't have birthdays sometimes, or the bill collectors came, or the phone company would call and say, 'We're shutting your phones off.' And we were all old enough to either get the calls or watch my mother's reactions or watch my parents shuffling the money around.''
Parker continued, "My friends know me so well, and they know how terrified I am of being broke, and they think it is hilarious and humorous. In the case of the entertainment industry, actresses have this window, and the window closes every day a little bit more. The earnings potential falls and the window is closed, and I am really cognizant of that. I have no illusions of who I am or what I look like or what I have to offer."