Jon Lovitz Quotes

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

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

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

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 can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

I grew up poor.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

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

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

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

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.

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

We lived in a hotel for many years as we struggled financially, but I always loved football.

I was poor my whole life.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.

Growing up, we really didn't have a lot of money.