Christina Applegate Quotes

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

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.

I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.

I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single parent.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'

I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna get paid, you'll finally be able to make a living.' But it was not to be so. I always bartended and waited tables so I ended up not doing theater for about a year because nobody would hire me.

I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.

I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.

As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.

Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.

I don't come from money.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

My parents didn't have any money.

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

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