Underprivileged Quotes

Actors are the world`s oldest, underprivileged minority - looked upon as nothing but buffoons, one step above thieves and charlatans. These award ceremonies simply compound the image for me.

(On Hillary Clinton) A lot of the stuff people say about her, I hear it and my stomach falls because it`s so sexist. You ask people why they don`t like her and it`s because her husband cheated on her! That was obviously not her choice. She`s so much more polished and experienced than anyone else. Last night, a friend, a social worker in L.A. who works with underprivileged kids, was saying how these girls who have never been interested in politics before are so excited that a woman might be president. I mean, look how many women are in government...Hillary`s one of, what, (a handful of) female senators? I also like Obama. I even like McCain. I disagree with his war stance -- which is a really big deal -- but I think he`s a very moral person. I met him and Hillary on the same day, actually, when I went to Washington with Finca (a nonprofit that gives loans to businesswomen in developing countries). Hillary was by far the smartest person I met that day. Just totally focused, and knew more about the issues than anyone else, and was so able to go from one thing to the other.

One of the things that strikes me is that no matter how difficult or underprivileged the situation you were living in as a child, it wasn`t considered difficult. I don`t think as children, you are aware of it. You have nothing to compare it to.

We raise so much money for hospitals, but it`s not just about that. Anybody can come up with a bunch of money to give to somebody. It`s about going to a hospital and hanging out with the kids and dancing and singing with them or giving underprivileged kids a chance to go to a theme park for a day or rebuilding a playground. I love it so much. It`s really gratifying. - on her work for the charity Kids With a Cause.

We`re trying to be proactive and not reactive to the situation. We need to have a little more compassion for the underprivileged. It`s hard for them to get the help they need because they`re looked down upon.

Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses