Orson Welles Quotes

I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.

I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.

When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative.

My family, like many families here in South Carolina, have faced difficult financial situations.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

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?'

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.

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

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.

This is a wonderful year for raw truth. We don't have any money.

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

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

I know what not being able to pay your bills feels like real well... I know that way better than a room full of beautiful people and Tony awards and Grammy awards.

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

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

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.'

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

I've never had money before in my life. Ever. Never, ever.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.