Kaya Scodelario Quotes

I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.

Boy, we'll get Raymond out and we won't go hungry anymore.

It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position.

I live very well, but I support a lot of relatives.

I make all that money and it ain't enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.

I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out.

I justified working so hard by knowing that I was helping to maintain the roof over our heads.

I need to work to support myself and my kids. No one pays for my support.

If I wasn't touring, I wasn't making money. When I got the MacArthur, I could get off that hamster wheel. It meant I didn't have to do anything.

My family, ain't no more struggling to pay this bill, pay that bill.

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my parents a house. My husband and I have a property in Portugal and one in Mumbles, Wales, and my family are always coming out to visit us. It has been fantastic to have such a successful career and to have been able to help everyone.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

I never wanted to rely on my family for money.

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed.

I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.

No matter how much money I ever get, I'm going to want to provide for my family and never have to go back to really struggling. You don't ever want to go outside, you don't ever want to be left in the cold. You want to be safe.

The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.

I wasn't rich.

Money can’t solve every problem, but it can solve quite a few.