Sendhil Mullainathan Quotes

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

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

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

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

I don't mean to make a generalization, but I do at the same time, from what I know about people from the Midwest, it seems like their families would talk about money openly in front of them when they were kids. They'd say stuff like, 'We're broke! We're gonna lose the house!'

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.

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.

You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

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?'

My dad never had a bank balance of more than three lakh and was always extremely compassionate towards his producers.

Awards do not pay the mortgage.

There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.

Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.

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

There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.

When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.

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

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

We were far from rich, but I never remember my parents worrying about money.

Everyone is trying to make ends meet, and even if you aren't, no one wants to get ripped off.

I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out.

Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived.