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Motherhood Quote by Marc Wallice

"I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me"

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No glamor, no comeback arc, just the blunt inventory of a life stripped to essentials: shoes, pants, a borrowed couch, a payphone-style rhythm of checking in. Marc Wallice speaks in the grammar of someone who has been forcibly edited out of the world he used to inhabit. The list is doing the work. It’s not poetic, but it’s exact, the way people talk when they’re trying to keep emotion from spilling over: tally what’s left, don’t touch what’s gone.

The subtext is a public identity turned radioactive. For an actor, visibility is currency; here it’s a threat. “I don’t want to be anywhere anybody can find me” isn’t just about privacy, it’s about the fear of being re-fixed in place by other people’s narratives: gossip columns, industry gatekeepers, the court of public opinion. The line carries the paranoia of someone who’s learned that “found” can mean confronted, punished, photographed, turned into a cautionary tale.

The mother detail lands hardest. He’s not fully severed from family or home, but he can only approach it in brief, tactical visits “to get my calls,” like contact with his old life has to happen at the edge of the frame. In cultural terms, it’s a snapshot of how celebrity scandal (or simply reputational collapse) doesn’t just cost jobs; it reorganizes geography. You start living as a moving target. The intent isn’t to elicit sympathy so much as to assert a new rule: if the world is hunting for you, survival means being unlocatable.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Wallice, Marc. (2026, January 16). I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-got-nothing-i-got-my-shoes-and-my-pants-im-97095/

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Wallice, Marc. "I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-got-nothing-i-got-my-shoes-and-my-pants-im-97095/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-got-nothing-i-got-my-shoes-and-my-pants-im-97095/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Marc Wallice

Marc Wallice (born October 3, 1959) is a Actor from USA.

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