Pernell Roberts Quotes

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.

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

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.

I still have to work paycheck to paycheck. Being in show business doesn't indicate that you're a 'success,' in my opinion.

Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

$3,000 from a residual cheque was all I made one year.

Most actors can't make any kind of living.

It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position.

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.

Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

Believe me, it's not easy being an actress and a producer, especially with no big daddy to support you.

I thought I was going to be a theater actor. I moved to New York after college and did some plays and worked a lot. Once the realities of living as a theatrical actor hit me, I realized I wanted to start making a little bit of money and not have to bartend and work in theater.

A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.

My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big city with nothing and make it.

I held down as many jobs as I could find, from being a waiter to working at a yoga studio and as a ticket-taker at a small theater company - anything that would allow me to go out and do auditions.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

l had a job, and if you had a job in the depression you were rich.