Sheryl Lee Quotes

I still have to work paycheck to paycheck. Being in show business doesn't indicate that you're a 'success,' in my opinion.

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.

Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

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

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.'

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

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

Most actors can't make any kind of living.

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.

You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

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

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

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.

My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.

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.

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'.

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

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

The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.