Leslie Mann Quotes

I still have the mentality of someone who doesn't know where he's going to sleep and doesn't know if he has enough money for gas to get to the next job interview. I don't think that mentality ever leaves, you know?

I have always been afraid of banks.

My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'

I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.

We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to another bar. I lived that way when I was unemployed, when I was a snowboard instructor, and when I was at NYU. A lot of my personality is stuck in those five years, and I don't know if that's ever gonna change.

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

I became bitter, hard, cold. I was always on a panic - couldn't buy clothes or a good place to live.

I think the most stressful time of my life was when I was in New York, and I didn't have money to pay my rent.

I always felt very insecure financially as a child. I was desperate to understand money as a child. I was desperate to be secure. Because I always felt like the rug could be pulled from under me.

When your father loses his job you're not sure what the future is going to be. I was conscious that people were interested in what was happening to my father.

I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while.

LA is a harsh city to be in when you're a little girl from the South, and you have absolutely no idea what you're doing and you are thinking, 'Am I making, have I made a massive mistake? I don't have money to move back home. My parents are not on board with this. What do I do?'

Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: 'There is no God' or 'There is no money'?

I would say 70 percent of people who are in therapy are in therapy not because of their upbringing, not because of their mean sister or obsessions, but because of anxiety brought about by lack of financial security.

A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

Without strong financial roots, our generation is in a constant state of redefinition. This forces us to think outside the box when it comes to making a living... which sometimes makes it look like we're a mess, but really we're just creative. And we like weed.