Laura Esquivel Quotes

When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.

People promise to stick with their spouse 'for richer or poorer' but it's the 'for poorer' part that causes the worry. The big shock is that the 'for richer' bit can also cause problems.

The economics of life is against the family.

My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!

Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.

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

Dating now is a lot like going shopping when you don't have any money. Even if you find the right thing, you can't do anything about it.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Money is a never-ending problem.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.

There's only so much that you can tighten your belt before you squeeze yourself to death.

Unless a capital change takes place soon, it will be impossible for me to maintain our posts and keep the army from dispersing

When I started my career, there wasn't the pressure of money. Everything now is, 'We'd love to do that but we can't; we haven't got the money.'

You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.

Pressure is a man that is wondering how he's going to feed his five kids today.

Feeling the pressure to find a job or make the wage we earn go as far as we need it to? That's totally relatable. Nearly all my pals, and definitely myself, have been in that situation. It's no fun.

The bad thing about being with an actor is that the role he's in stays with him all the time. The good thing about being with an actor - well, I can't think of any good thing.

In these tough economic times, everybody has to cut back. I am down to three tabs of ecstasy a day.

Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.

A lack of money is never, ever, ever a problem. A lack of money is merely a symptom of what is going on underneath.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.