Orson Welles Quotes

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.

I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out.

The bottom line is, I've got a wife and three kids. I've got bills I have to pay.

It always seems to me that my life would look completely different if I didn't have to take care of the rent.

I thought it'd be different. Kind of like, a lot of weight lifted off of my shoulders, as I don't have to worry about finances for the rest of my life, or my family's. But it wasn't like that. It was more - there's things I need to get done.

Awards do not pay the mortgage.

You know, your whole life you're concerned about money for this and that. And then you don't have to worry about it, so you worry about other stuff.

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.

I live very well, but I support a lot of relatives.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.

What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.

We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

You have to pay the bills when you're a single mum.

I don't have a mortgage or kids, so I can lie low and tighten my belt if I need to.

Mom was always worrying about the rent.

My mom, her money going was straight to the bills.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.