Starving Quotes

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When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!

- Adolf Hitler

In my world, you have to be so beautiful, so skinny, so rich, so famous and I don`t believe you really have to be any of those things. You simply have to be who you are. I do have thighs and a butt. I have cellulite. Don`t be too impressed with me. Don`t try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style. Don`t spend your savings trying to be someone else. You`re not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress. I get them free and I`m too lazy to go out and look for my own. I, a rich girl from Mexico, came here with designer clothes. And one day, when I was starving in an apartment in Los Angeles, I looked at my Chanel blouses and said, `If only I could pay the rent with one of these.`

- Salma Hayek

(reflecting on his lengthy acting career) It`s always seemed to me like a mission. A holy one, like the Blues Brothers. It`s a marathon. You can`t quit; even coming in dead last has honor. Quitting doesn`t. Look, I had absolute faith in my future when I was starving in New York and no one believed in me besides me and my girlfriend. I`d be stupid to lose that faith after I`ve become a fucking icon. Oh, yes. And I love the work.

- David Carradine

"I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving."

- Kevin Kline

On Hollywood`s perception of women as beauty objects: "I`m lucky I don`t do the kind of work where the main thing is that you`re the girl and you look gorgeous. I don`t look like that. I`m a funny-looking bugger. I don`t feel that I can compete, and I wouldn`t want to. Life`s too short to spend seven hours a day in the gym and starving yourself."

- Emily Watson

(on Warren Beatty) There are some people who are close to him that say he is just starving for attention, and that`s the way he gets attention. Other people said, "Look, he`s not working and he just feels like he should maybe get involved in politics". Instead, I just think that maybe he is jealous that I did jump in. I find it silly, because I respect his work.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they`re really mean to each other about who makes what.

- Jackson Browne

My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.

- Mike Myers

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

- Sela Ward

From being a struggling. starving filmmaker to being incredibly successful in a period of a couple of years is quite a powerful experience, and not necessarily a good one.

- George Lucas

Elizabeth Taylor used to feed me, to hand-feed me, at times. Please, I don`t want anybody to think I`m starving, I`m not. My health is perfect, actually.

- Michael Jackson

I look at the news, I see people starving, I am crying. I`m a total mess. You try to think how you`re going to break through this cobweb of problems and bureaucracy and how on Earth anybody is going to make any change. (Live 8 press conference, 7-4-2005)

- Björk

(reflecting on his lengthy acting career) "It`s always seemed to me like a mission. A holy one, like the Blues Brothers. It`s a marathon. You can`t quit, even coming in dead last has honor. Quitting doesn`t. Look, I had absolute faith in my future when I was starving in New York and no one believed in me besides me and my girlfriend. I`d be stupid to lose that faith after I`ve become a fucking icon. Oh, yes. And I love the work."

- David Carradine

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It`s so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

- Ann Druyan

As an actor there`s no autonomy, unless you`re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

- Ben Kingsley

Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world. It`s crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations. Any squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if re-forming for this concert will help focus attention then it`s got to be worthwhile.

- David Gilmour

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

- Pearl S. Buck

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

- Phyllis Schlafly

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

- Rosalind Russell

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I`ve looked outside and seen people starving to death.

- Don Van Vliet

I feel so blessed that I`ve been able to achieve what I have without a lot of pain and struggle. There are so many actors out there who are immensely talented and some I know are pretty close to starving.

- Elizabeth Reaser

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

- Allen Ginsberg

Waiting. Waiting. What would you do if your family was starving and you saw people dying in the streets? `Love thy neighbor.` Didn`t I read that somewhere? The real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It`s the War on Poverty, and it`s a war that`s been ignored and lost. An estimated 37 million Americans are living in poverty. New Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the country, with 40 percent of its children living in poverty. Mississippi has the highest poverty rate of any state. We`ve repeatedly given tax cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American citizens to basically fend for themselves.

- Nancy Giles

Our goal is to raise between $35,000 to $40,000 for starving people.

- Michael McCarthy

Anger as soon as fed is dead - `Tis starving makes it fat.

- Emily Dickinson

Anger as soon as fed is dead- `Tis starving makes it fat.

- Emily Dickinson

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

- Andrea Dworkin

Being a starving company isn`t fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

- Mike Wilson

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

- Jack Kevorkian

It was a bittersweet time, the highest of highs and lowest of lows. You feel so guilty even calling, trying to get that ride, but at the same time, it`s the opportunity of a lifetime. I was starving for a job when Alex had his accident.

- Casey Mears

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

- Aaron Ostrom

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

- Al Edwards

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

- Amy DePuy

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

- Anton Situmeang

It`s just a fun event because us starving artists just really enjoy appreciation.

- Arthur Lifshin

If large masses of people in this country were starving there would be a swift public reaction to feed them. Similarly large masses of people without housing should be immediately helped.

- Audrey Betcher

If you`ve seen the horrors of war on the front lines, starving civilians, bombed-out homes, you can`t be for war.

- Avery Goldstein

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

- Mark Twain

Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance

- Lily Fairchilde

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

- William Butler Yeats

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

- Sylvia Pankhurst