Tony Scott Quotes

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

My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

We were far from rich, but I never remember my parents worrying about money.

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

Economics should not drive you out of the community.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived.

It is weird because a lot of people don't realise, I would struggle for budget. There are moments with the people I work with sit there and think what have we got to do to make people realise that if Billy doesn't get sponsorship he won't be racing.

While growing up, I saw how finances can play havoc in anybody's life. While we were comfortable, money didn't come easy.

It's public news my dad was up and down financially.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

I come from a poor background, I've seen struggle. Money will come and go, but I will continue to be grounded.

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

Unemployment, low wages, and poverty discourage family formation and erode family stability, making it less likely that individuals will marry in the first place and more likely that their marriages will dissolve.

There was this conflict within me because so many people would come up to me to ask for prayers for all sorts of things, and 50% would be about money like, 'How can I pay for the tuition fee of my kids?' And I could only pray for them. I had no advice to give them because I didn't know anything about money.

Perhaps the original layaway angel knew from experience, or simply deduced, that people resorting to the old-fashioned installment method of layaway may be struggling financially.

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I know what not being able to pay your bills feels like real well... I know that way better than a room full of beautiful people and Tony awards and Grammy awards.

My dad battled various financial mishaps for years before achieving success as a stunt director, but my parents ensured that my brother and I knew all about the family's struggle. We knew from where each piece of furniture came from.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

My parents and friends, they're Ph.D.s that worked as custodians, that owned their own businesses, that went bankrupt, that moved seven times, that sent their kid to Harvard, that don't have any money for retirement. Highs and lows of life.

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.