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People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.

I've lived on $400 a month in college. I've lived on it fine.

I can only spend $140 a month in here. I'm saving, like, $10,000 a day.

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.

There's a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget. Your home or apartment. Your car. Your insurance. If you are overspending on these big monthly bills, then money's draining out of your pocket a lot faster than you can replace it by clipping coupons or buying cheaper coffee.

I haven't always had the money rolling in. I'm a character actor; it's not like I'm Gwyneth Paltrow - so I do have hard times still in my life. And that's even more why it's like you know what, I'm not that different from people going through it. I struggle; I look for a better deal at the grocery store.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.

Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

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