Derek Kilmer Quotes

There's no advice for when you're out of money, and there's none coming in, and nobody's going to give you any.

My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.

I know what it's like to have a house repossessed... I've been there.

I almost went broke. I didn't file bankruptcy, but I had some miserable times there for two or three years.

Let's say I go completely broke, I'm about to star in the next '30 for 30: Broke.'

Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach.

My father lost his business. Our house was locked up, and we had to leave.

The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.

I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.

The Medium of Exchange, the only thing which gives life to Business, Employs the Poor, Feeds the Hungry, and Cloaths the Naked, is so Exhausted; that in a little time we shall not have wherewith to Buy our Daily Bread, much less to pay our Debts or Taxes

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

My father's money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job.

I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

I went dead broke - twice! - trying to get Gas Monkey up and going. And when I say broke, I mean sleeping on my sister's couch and can't pay-the-rent type broke.

I had a year, where... I was secretly, 100 percent, dead broke.