Carmen Cusack Quotes

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

My family, like many families here in South Carolina, have faced difficult financial situations.

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?'

It's tough for some families throughout the year and during the holidays.

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

My parents were very strapped for cash when we were growing up.

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

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

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.

I didn't really have an interest in politics when I first entered the workforce. What I wanted to do was help people who grew up like me. When I was a kid growing up in Tucson, my father lost his job and we lost everything - including our home. We lived in an abandoned gas station for two years until we were able to get back on our feet.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

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

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

I didn't have money growing up.

I totally remember that: being 25 and unemployed and trying to stretch each cappuccino for 60 minutes.

Growing up, we really didn't have a lot of money.

Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their struggles.

Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she's making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.