Briga Heelan Quotes

I don’t even have money for a cheeseburger!

When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.

I know what it's like to have to put back food at the checkout line because you don't have enough money and those kinds of things.

Sometimes, we didn't have enough to eat. I'd go to school with no lunch money, and my school would have to provide it.

Being a hungry artist, you don't have the luxury of buying whatever you want. There were years of me doing a lot of odd jobs, this and that just to make ends meet.

When you are already eating as cheaply and meagerly as possible, any raise in cost can quickly plunge you and your family into hunger.

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

There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my car, which wasn't insured. My wallet was in there, and I couldn't call AAA, because I only had $7 in my bank account. It was one of those moments where I was like, 'O.K., I literally have nothing right now.'

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

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

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

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.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

I'm basically a starving artist.

I've never had money before in my life. Ever. Never, ever.

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.

Very few people can afford to be poor.