Ben Mendelsohn Quotes

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

Truman didn't have enough money to make a radio speech.

I've never had money before in my life. Ever. Never, ever.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.

As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.

We don't make enough in our job to live the way that we would want to and to have the support that we would need. Most of our income doesn't even come from our salary from our employer and we have to find income from other places.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

I didn't have money growing up.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

Initially when I moved over to Italy it was really easy because I was living my dream. Everything was brand new. Then I began to get into the routine: training, school, home, home, school, training. That's all I did for 18 months. I had 20 euros to live on a week and I couldn't do anything else, because you can't with that amount of money.

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

I have crooked toes from wearing boots that didn't fit me because that's all I could afford as a kid.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.

My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.