Lee DeWyze Quotes

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

When you haven't got a job, a joke is about the only thing that's free.

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.

I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.

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.

Nothing has more impact on my district than unemployment.

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

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

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.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

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.

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

I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

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.