Herbert Hoover Quotes

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

I think that so many people don't understand how easy it is to be broke, how easy it is to find yourself in a situation where you're in an absolutely foreign place.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

When you're 22, 23, living in New York, you're just scrambling to live on people's couches and in rooms that you're sure you're not supposed to be in. You're not on the lease; you're paying weird amounts of money every month trying to make it happen.

I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

Growing up, we really didn't have a lot of money.

I haven't always had the money rolling in. I'm a character actor; it's not like I'm Gwyneth Paltrow - so I do have hard times still in my life. And that's even more why it's like you know what, I'm not that different from people going through it. I struggle; I look for a better deal at the grocery store.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

Whether it's New York or somewhere else, the metaphor of 'Avenue Q,' which is the place you live when you can't afford to live anywhere else - and we've all been through that in our journey. As I always say, at any moment I could be back on Avenue Q if I pick the wrong show.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.