David Talbot Quotes

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived.

Money's only important when you don't have any.

America has become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.

Money is only important when you don't have any.

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

The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

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?'

If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.

When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs.

If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and getting that bread.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.

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

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.