Martin Lel Quotes

My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.

People tend to discuss things like relationships with family and friends, and the fact that I'm the only breadwinner in the family. And honestly, I cashed in on it.

I realized I was the one doing all the training, earning the money, and my parents were living off of me.

When my parents separated, I became the breadwinner of the family.

I got a family to take care of and kids to feed. That's my motivation, this is my job.

While I was in university, my father became very ill and my father was unable to work. We needed to pay the bills, so in my 20s I became the sole income earner in my family.

I started working when I was three years old and was basically known before I knew who my own name was. My parents needed money, so at that time it became my responsibility to pay the bills.

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

I live very well, but I support a lot of relatives.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

I have to be invested spiritually, emotionally, and psychologically to do theater. I can't do it to make a living. I have four kids, a couple of grandkids, and two mortgages.

I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.

I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.

I work to take care of my family, not the other way around.

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

In some ways, I'm slightly like a single parent, so I need to be able to provide for my family.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.

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.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

I justified working so hard by knowing that I was helping to maintain the roof over our heads.

My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.