Allison Tolman Quotes

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

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

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.'

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

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

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

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

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.

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.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

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

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

My parents didn't have any money.

I wasn't rich.

Truman didn't have enough money to make a radio speech.

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