Lewis Black Quotes

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

Nobody likes being broke. As somebody who's had to live out of a 1982 Datsun, trust me. I know. I also understand that the first step to improve your situation is to fix the problem that landed you there in the first place.

Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any.

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

I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.

I don't make any money.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

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

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

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

Most people need the money all the time.

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.

I am scared of running out of money.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

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.

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

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

I could use a little extra cash.

I had a year, where... I was secretly, 100 percent, dead broke.

I've been poor most of my life.