Lamorne Morris Quotes

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

Broke is a Hollywood term!

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

I hate the feeling of falling - I'll never jump from a plane - but I love a good roller coaster. Go figure!

We're broke. It's never a fun message to deliver.

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.

I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

I know what not being able to pay your bills feels like real well... I know that way better than a room full of beautiful people and Tony awards and Grammy awards.

I worked at Ruby Foos early on as a host. I was only there for a little bit, but I had several odd jobs to pay the bills before that. And being in New York for the first year, I got here in 2003, and it was a very exciting but very scary time not knowing how you would make ends meet and me trying to meet people.

I came to cinema for money. I had to settle a loan of Rs 10 lakh. I had no other go, so I thought I'd try my luck in films. I was earning Rs 25,000 at that time. It was not even enough for my family.

I went dead broke - twice! - trying to get Gas Monkey up and going. And when I say broke, I mean sleeping on my sister's couch and can't pay-the-rent type broke.

Nobody likes being broke. As somebody who's had to live out of a 1982 Datsun, trust me. I know. I also understand that the first step to improve your situation is to fix the problem that landed you there in the first place.

The people who pawn stuff never want to be on the show. And the reason behind that, I find out, is when people are pawning something, it's - they're getting a loan. They have to admit they're broke. For some reason or the other, something has happened, or they're financially irresponsible.

I had a year, where... I was secretly, 100 percent, dead broke.

I did a lot of violent junk just because I needed the money - alimony movies, you might call them - and then I decided to start turning down the junk scripts and wait for something better, no matter how long.

I did two matches for WCW, for 'Saturday Night' and for 'WorldWide.' Scott D'Amore was booking the extra talent. I remember I was really torn about it. I was like, 'Hmm... I don't want to do that. I don't want to just be an extra guy. I want so much more than that,' but I was flat broke, and it was 500 bucks.