Whitney Cummings Quotes

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

I was working maybe four different jobs just to make ends meet. I was really broke. I could barely pay rent. I didn't have a car. I was riding my bike from one job to another and then to audition in between.

I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.

When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

I came from nothing. We didn't have money, so I started work at 14 because I really needed the money.

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.

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?'

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

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

I know what poverty is.

The problem with not saving is it can often mean you're - a crisis away from, as we've seen in some cases, living in your car or losing your home or - having your lights shut off.

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

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

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

After you've cut back everything else, food is the last to go. I didn't mind putting an extra jumper on if I had food in the fridge. It was the point where I had an extra jumper on and no food in the fridge that I realised things had gone badly wrong.