Ken Wallace Quotes

My challenge is that because I am not self-funding... I'm going out leaning on the generosity of everyday folks.

I donate money to the existing foundation that funds the US Ski Team kids.

I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.

As the oldest I was a daddy's girl and loved him with all my heart. My daddy had holes in his shoes so that he could pay for my photography classes, you know what I mean.

I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.

In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.

A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances.

The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

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

I am still writing my own checks for more or less substantial amounts every week in order to squeeze by the weekend.

Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle class. I slept in the hallway on a cot that rolled away during the day, and my younger brother and sister slept in my parents' room. My goal as a kid was to someday have my own room and to own a car - and I wanted to be able to take care of my parents.

Our men and women in uniform make enough sacrifices for our country. Their credit rating should not be one of those sacrifices.

We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.

I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.

My mum was working as a cleaner at some hotels to make extra money so she could pay for her degree. I'll never forget waking up at five in the morning before school and helping her clean the toilets at the hotel in Stonebridge.

It is weird because a lot of people don't realise, I would struggle for budget. There are moments with the people I work with sit there and think what have we got to do to make people realise that if Billy doesn't get sponsorship he won't be racing.