Fran Lebowitz Quotes

I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most.

When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

My money slow, my money stupid, money ditzy

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

You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.

I am 42 years old and I have $9000, and I am out of ideas. I've nothing to spend it on. I'm bored shitless. I will die with that $9000.

I'm at a very frustrating point in my career because I'm not a millionaire. Like, people assume because you're in movies or TV, you're rich. I'm not rich, but I'm far from broke. I'm what you call a 'thousandaire.'

A budget takes the fun out of money.

It's like the more money we come across / the more problems we see.

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

For people whose job it is to make sure we make money, there's a lot of pressure.

Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.

In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.

If you are 8 hours a day in a job you hate, you're not going to be a very good spouse; it can contribute to chemical dependency, financial mismanagement.

I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.

Restraining, saving, assuring your checkbook balance...what does all taht amount to? If I go broke one day I'll just take out loans

I don't sit down and say, boy, I'm thinking about getting a great deal of money or I'm not going to have any money.

I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.

I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable.

Drank a lot of take home pay.