Evan Williams Quotes

I haven't always had the money rolling in. I'm a character actor; it's not like I'm Gwyneth Paltrow - so I do have hard times still in my life. And that's even more why it's like you know what, I'm not that different from people going through it. I struggle; I look for a better deal at the grocery store.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

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

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.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

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 a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.

I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room... there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.

When Kogi started, I was dead broke, selling tacos on the street just to survive.

I've been broke my whole life, you get what I'm saying? I'm scared of the bank.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.

Moving to Mumbai was difficult, as survival was a major concern. I was not from a very well-to-do family.

I remember my mother and I sitting down counting off our pennies to pay our bills. We really had nothing.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I came from nothing. We didn't have money, so I started work at 14 because I really needed the money.