Becca Fitzpatrick Quotes

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.

I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.

You don't happen to have a thousand dollars I can borrow?" "I don't have five you can borrow. My piggy bank is officialy anorexic.

Being broke is against my religion.

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

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

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

This is a wonderful year for raw truth. We don't have any money.

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

We were pretty cash-strapped for all those years when I took over.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I was not somebody who watched a lot of films. We couldn't afford to. We came from struggling family background.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

I'm not someone who's an immigrant who's struggling in that way, but between New York and L.A., I had someone tell me very early on, "If you're going to be broke anywhere, it's better to be broke in L.A. At least the weather is nice." I was like, "You're right." I didn't take them up on that.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

You know, when you need drugs and you don't have a lot of money, what you'll do is you'll hang out with people who will give you drugs. Right?

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.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.