Frances McDormand Quotes

I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.

It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

For too many of our young people, that once-promised American dream has given way to an American debt burden and a bleak job market.

In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.

After Westlife, I was in a scared place, you know; you've three children, and I worry about providing for them, and I had no guarantees going forward about the future.

It was scary, and I knew what it was like to be an unemployed actress again.

There were times when I was working three jobs at one time, and I was still auditioning just to make ends meet, and I was hoping that something was going to come through. Especially after you have two degrees, standing solid through the process is sometimes the hardest part because there is no guarantee.

I still have a fear about going broke. I always think about it.

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.

Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.

I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be.

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.

Every actor fears unemployment - even me.

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?

Now we've got lots of freedom and no money.

Debt has become a part of who we are… Normal is broke in America.

There are schoolteachers around the country that work second jobs after their teaching duties are done: one woman in North Dakota I spoke to was heading off to clean houses after the final bell in order to pay her rent.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.