David Geffen Quotes

I went dead broke - twice! - trying to get Gas Monkey up and going. And when I say broke, I mean sleeping on my sister's couch and can't pay-the-rent type broke.

I had a year, where... I was secretly, 100 percent, dead broke.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

To be famous and broke is hard.

We're broke. It's never a fun message to deliver.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.

The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close.

I may have been in financial difficulties, but I'm not a pauper.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

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

I wasn't rich.

Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

We have spent years robbing Peter to pay Paul until now Paul is also broke.

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.

Most actors I'm in touch with are struggling financially.

I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.

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.

You think if you win the Olympics, you'll become a millionaire overnight. But I was still scraping the barrel, looking down the back of the settee for pound coins to buy a pint of milk.