Ellen McLaughlin Quotes

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

I've always been interested in both writing and music. When I first started getting published, I also worked as rehearsal pianist for the Boston Ballet, touring with them all over the U.S.A. and Europe - I wasn't making enough money from writing to support myself.

I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'

There's little money in theatre.

The theatre world is so starved of funds, and that's unfortunately reflected in the pay.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.

I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.

My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.