Martha Plimpton Quotes

Work has become like prison because of the way we treat it. If you are trapped with people who you do not care for, it feels like a concentration camp.

To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.

I was a bellman - a great hotel, five-star hotel in Boston. I made great money. I made cash every day. I had good benefits. We had 401k. All the things you could ask for in a great job, I had. You know what I didn't have? I hated my job.

Oh God, I've done telesales. It doesn't get much lower than that, really. That's the job I enjoyed the least.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

If you're working for a sexist jerk, you have to leave.

My parents are not of this world. I've had to work multiple jobs, been in a position where I cannot pay off student loans.

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

I'm in the highest bracket. There's no way that a 22-year-old should be hit for that amount of money when he's got his whole life ahead of him.

I admit that I resent running out of research money.

Being a hungry artist, you don't have the luxury of buying whatever you want. There were years of me doing a lot of odd jobs, this and that just to make ends meet.

You could take any four people, no matter how wonderful they are, and if you make them live together on a tour bus for eight years and don't give them any time off, after a while everybody gonna start going crazy.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while.

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.

I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.

My money slow, my money stupid, money ditzy

It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

I had two cars repossessed, tons of debt. I had a horrible job that was damaging to my soul. After being on three different labels and knowing everyone and hearing yeses and nos and "You're it!" or "You're s - t!" I was depressed. But I never took no for an answer and really believed in myself.

They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.

For far too many people in the world, the vicious cycle of financial deprivation also feeds into the vicious cycle of sleep deprivation. If you're working two or three jobs and struggling to make ends meet, "get more sleep" is probably not going to be near the top of your priorities list.

Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.