Julie Gold Quotes

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

Whether it's New York or somewhere else, the metaphor of 'Avenue Q,' which is the place you live when you can't afford to live anywhere else - and we've all been through that in our journey. As I always say, at any moment I could be back on Avenue Q if I pick the wrong show.

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

I'm basically a starving artist.

Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

I've been chasing my music dream for a very long time and the acting dream just came up. But there are musical things I want to show the world, so that's my next step.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.

I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

Acting has always been a strong force in my life, but it was hard to change direction. I didn't make a paycheck for two years.

I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

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.

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

I was working maybe four different jobs just to make ends meet. I was really broke. I could barely pay rent. I didn't have a car. I was riding my bike from one job to another and then to audition in between.

Seriously, my heart is to just go forward as far as I can, making music that I love and seeing where the journey takes me.

Ask any guitar player - it's hard to feed yourself when you're picking for a living.

I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.

It's a gift that we get to do the work that we do to call ourselves artists.

I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living on student wages, then after I got my MA and started teaching, I lived on teacher's wages, which isn't much better.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.