Eddie Redmayne Quotes

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'

When you haven't got a job, a joke is about the only thing that's free.

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.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

It has had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most Prize winners, because I was in an unusual situation. I was unemployed at the time. I was in good health, but I had reached the age of 66 and beginning to get social security, but I didn't have much of that. I had many years of unemployment before me.

There's no advice for when you're out of money, and there's none coming in, and nobody's going to give you any.

I was doing a lot of great theatre, but I just couldn't work out how to make ends meet.

If you've just been sacked from work, with no money coming in and a baby to feed, clothe and keep warm, it's unlikely you'll have a thousand pounds or so to spare.

Nothing has more impact on my district than unemployment.

The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you.

I was on the dole.

I was struggling, I was hungry, I was a freelance copy editor but had very little work.

I never wanted to have to take a job because I didn't have any money.

I grew up poor, financially lower class. Worked in restaurants for 17 years while going to acting school and trying to become a working actor. Because I know what it's like to not have money, I turn down roles if I don't want to play them.

I was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own.

Economic security can feel like an impossible goal when you're living paycheck to paycheck, deciding between paying the light bill or the water bill, knowing the decision to pay either one may mean you can't put food on the table.

I was working with the fire service in a job that should have been a job for life, with career progression, with a pension and promotion, and within a year I was sleeping on a sofa under a section 21 notice being evicted from my home and not eating or four days.