Gene Tierney Quotes

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

I need to work to support myself and my kids. No one pays for my support.

I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

I'm OK: I don't need money.

I never wanted to rely on my family for money.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.

I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.

I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant that finding myself as a writer was a bad move. The practical difference the money has made is that I can support myself by fiction. That is what I have been trying to do throughout my life.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

I currently live independently without any funded support. I'm educated, and I'm employed. I enjoy paying my taxes and contributing to the economic life of Australia.

I spend my own money, not other people's money.

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big city with nothing and make it.

I feel very lucky that I don't have to rely on a man to give me financial security. That's a big deal.

I make money, money doesn't make me.

I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.

I come here with almost nothing and I am holding my own well, so you may not get angry for trading my team off. I have determined to get my land on some terms, I am not going back to Indiana to rent until I bust entirely and have to walk back.