Karl Pilkington Quotes

I'm not independently wealthy.

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

There is never enough money for TV.

When I was young in the business, I felt anything I wanted to buy personally and professionally was always too expensive.

It would be great to run around with the family every day, go shopping, take the children out. At my level, though, I can only afford to do that for one week maximum. Otherwise I have to eat, sleep, train - nothing else.

We all want more money, it just doesn't work that way.

You want all the money inside football. We do not have a bottomless pit of money. There are constraints. That's why some deals I have said no to because of the finances of them.

I get income, but I don't have a big swath of money to invest in things.

Whenever I did have a lot of money, I got in trouble.

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!

I think one of the biggest things is the budget.For a studio, becomes a very big challenge to make sure that movie will work even better on every level. As an actor I don't think in those terms when I make a movie.

I couldn't afford [buying Marvel]. I hope I have enough money for dinner tonight!

It's money. I remember it from when I was single

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

I always like to keep the budget as small as possible just to have the most freedom.

I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.

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

My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it.

Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.

I got so good at writing to a budget, my brain was restricting myself. I'd write, "It's a stormy night." Then I'd cross out stormy. I'd write: "It's a calm night." Then I'd cross out night. It's noon. Because you know how much night costs. You know how much rain costs. Nothing comes free in movies.

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

I've never been good at the money thing. I have had a couple of really nice but inept managers, and a business accountant that ripped me off. But I cannot totally blame my money making lameness on them.

Let's be realistic about that. I think Mercedes when it started the engine [development] didn't have a budget. It spent. And then lots of teams don't and can't. I mean Red Bull, for example, that won four world championships, didn't know the word "budget", and it's a case that it hadn't got the ability to have the engine that it should have had. Because somebody else [Mercedes] had the engine, wouldn't let them have it, because they didn't want competition.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.