Colin Egglesfield Quotes

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

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.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.

You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

I don't want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commercial! That is not a good reputation to have when you're trying to be a working actor.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free.

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.

I grew up in New York City during the Depression. My earliest recollections were of my parents talking about what they would do if they didn't have the rent money. Luckily, we were never evicted. But my father was unemployed most of the time.

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

We had bills to pay. My dad wasn't working, and it was tough for my mom. People were always raising the rent, so I had to work, too. Everybody in the house worked to pay the rent.

I wasn't born into money, and you never know when that money's going to stop coming in.

I have a fear of being broke. That's what I have a fear of. I'm not kidding.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.