Sarah Silverman Quotes

I always like to keep the budget as small as possible just to have the most freedom.

I'm lucky because I intentionally keep my overhead low, and so I can say, "No, thank you."

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

I'm more of a debit card person, and I live in the 'now'. I don't like credit cards anymore. I try to live with whatever I can afford and don't try to put myself in an awkward position. I've done that before.

I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

I live way below my means.

There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do.

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

I'm not an extravagant person. You don't get a chance to spend money when you're working on a TV show.

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.

I've tried to be more self-sufficient as I've gotten older. I'd like to not worry about whether they're going to sell my next album or book. Hell, William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime.

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.

I try to be prudent with everything and fortunately I have enough to support me in a nice middle-class lifestyle, while I try to do other things.

I'm calculated in other things, but not in what I make.

I don't want to get on the treadmill of earning more money. I'd rather live cheaply and allow myself more freedom. I can honestly say I've never taken a film just for the dough, although I've made some ghastly mistakes.