Tim Cahill Quotes

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.

We have hardly enough money to last till the end of March.

My family, like many families here in South Carolina, have faced difficult financial situations.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

There's a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.

I am still writing my own checks for more or less substantial amounts every week in order to squeeze by the weekend.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world.

While growing up, I saw how finances can play havoc in anybody's life. While we were comfortable, money didn't come easy.

I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living on student wages, then after I got my MA and started teaching, I lived on teacher's wages, which isn't much better.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.