Jodie Foster Quotes

The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

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

I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

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

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

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

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

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.

As a mother, I - like everyone else - have to fill my gas tank in my car. I have to feed my family. I have to be able to make sure that I can keep a roof over their heads and, with things escalating the way they are, it's very difficult. People are losing their homes.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

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.

It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position.

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?'

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Money is a never-ending problem.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

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.