Alison Owen Quotes

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

My dad thought I'd end up in the poorhouse or in doughnut shops with a bag full of reviews.

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

You can work for 10 years without making it... we aren't actually all living in mansions.

To be frank, my career as an actor was not even taking care of my lifestyle. Doing two odd films a year wasn't making me financially secure.

It's a little hard to go out there and spend your money on a home, car, or goods and services if your wages are being garnished to make debt collectors rich.

When you are continuing to be in debt or are going deeper into it, every time a creditor calls, it rubs your face not only in how vulnerable you are, but that people are out to get something from you that you don't have to give.

I think one of the hardest things to talk about as a comic is having money because it's so unrelatable.

There's nothing normal about graduating with massive student debt, where you live in fear of predatory debt collectors and wage garnishers even as you are starting to live your life.

Americans shouldn't have to hold down two or three jobs to make ends meet.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

My parents worked hard, sometimes two jobs, to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table.

At a lot of college graduations, you'll hear people say, 'Follow your passions,' and that is important, but no one talks about the stress of not having enough money, the issues of debt, and the issues of work stress.

My family didn't really have newspapers at home or talk about politics - my family are not political. They were too busy getting on with it - working, looking after kids, trying to pay off the mortgage, all that stuff.

I'm bad with money.

If you want to provide for your family, maybe show business is not a high degree of success. You will need to keep your day job until you make it, and know it's an odds thing just like the NFL. I personally wouldn't recommend anybody to go into this business.

It sends the wrong message to participate in hosted golf and other entertainment activities while thousands of Oregonians face foreclosure, unemployment or are simply struggling.

My team and I tried cashing checks at check-cashing places and paying bills by money order. It's incredibly inconvenient and time-consuming - it's practically a part-time job just to manage and move your money.

There were so many times that, as waitresses, you look at your bank account and you literally have 100 bucks, and you're thinking, 'How am I going to pay my utility bill, my rent?' but at the same time thinking, 'How am I going to accomplish my dreams?'

I've been broke my whole life, you get what I'm saying? I'm scared of the bank.

My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late.

Please, let's talk to American families and sit around the dinner table at night figuring how to pay their bills.

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.