Melissa McCarthy Quotes

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

I'm not an extravagant person. You don't get a chance to spend money when you're working on a TV show.

If I can pay the bills, I'm happy.

My mom, her money going was straight to the bills.

Couples that do save have stronger, more stable, less stressful unions. In other words, you don't want to be fighting about saving; you just want to be saving, period.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.

I just like to keep working and being able to pay my bills.

There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I'm lucky enough to be in that position. And I'm also careful. I save 38 percent of my earnings after expenses, before taxes.

I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.

I do not think that you can spend yourself rich.

We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

I don't spoil myself on extravagant cars or spending money on jewelry. So I save a lot of the money I have.

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.

I try to be prudent with everything and fortunately I have enough to support me in a nice middle-class lifestyle, while I try to do other things.

People get out ahead of themselves in debt with spending on all of their desires. But if you learn to live pretty simply and well, well under your means, you feel incredibly, incredibly rich, and that frees you up and gives you the option to start something new, to leave the job you're not excited about, where there might be a glass ceiling on you.

Being a cheap bastard now means so much more freedom and choices later.

It pays to be a fee fiend.

Cut back your spending now.