Dawn Steel Quotes

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

If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.

Alarm in hard times makes one live; indulgence in comfort makes one die.

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.

Money's only important when you don't have any.

I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

I'm not rich.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

No, I'm not wealthy.

If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and getting that bread.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for 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.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.