Karen Kilgariff Quotes

I'm not being cynical, but I have to find work that is allowing me to pay bills and keep our lives going in a way that we're used to and trying not to betray my political beliefs while I'm doing it. Listen, it's a tough thing to do.

Being broke is against my religion.

In simple terms, I realised that food is the most fundamental need for a person. In difficult economic times, people's priorities change, and they might be willing to do something that secures for them the lowest possible weekly food bill.

My father lost his business. Our house was locked up, and we had to leave.

You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.

I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.

He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.

I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing.

I'm short-selling my house. I have more loans than I can sell the house for. The house will not go into foreclosure. It will be a short sale. I can't afford the house as I once could.

I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

The problem with not saving is it can often mean you're - a crisis away from, as we've seen in some cases, living in your car or losing your home or - having your lights shut off.

The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.

I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna get paid, you'll finally be able to make a living.' But it was not to be so. I always bartended and waited tables so I ended up not doing theater for about a year because nobody would hire me.

I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'

I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.

Crime doesn't pay, but neither does farming.

Foreclosure is nothing new. And it certainly will always be a fact of life for some.

I know what it's like to have a house repossessed... I've been there.

Our house was repossessed and we lived in a B&B until we got a council house. It was a struggle, but Mum just got her head down, found cleaning jobs and never complained. I owe her a lot, so I now do everything she says.

My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.

Being your own person and standing for what you believe is a critical aspect of a good professional life.

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.

Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscerally experience through the lives of friends, family, neighbors, colleagues. I'd venture to say it's a rare person in 2013 America who knows nobody who lost a job in the recession, or knows nobody whose home went underwater or who went into foreclosure.

If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.