Taylor Sheridan Quotes

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.

I was making $150 a week in workshop. It was a rough year. I had trouble paying the rent. But I had evenings free to spend with my wife, Olive, and our baby daughter. In terms of family-building, it was one of the most blessed years of my life.

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

The way I live now is that I only write, which means that I'm very poor but very happy. Everything in my life is the way I want it to be.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.

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

My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?

My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.

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

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

If I had a modelling job and then it became a poster, it meant that my kids and I could have turkey for Christmas dinner. Otherwise, we had chicken.

If you've just been sacked from work, with no money coming in and a baby to feed, clothe and keep warm, it's unlikely you'll have a thousand pounds or so to spare.

The romantic idea of the penniless writer is false. It's terrible. I hated being in debt. I hated the anxiety of not knowing whether we could pay our rent that month. Thankfully, I had a wife who was very supportive and had faith and shared my madness.

Having grown up a trailer park kid on welfare and food stamps, becoming jaded is impossible, although now I make a good living, which I'm not ashamed of; when you've been poor, it never leaves you.

I'd rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted.

I didn't choose this career for money. When I started training, I did it because I liked it, and I never had money for anything in my life.

I couldn't make a living as a comic in Ireland and I was watching my friends from college getting good jobs, buying houses, and I had to really take stock and say: am I going to go for this comedy thing, or what?

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.