Ang Lee Quotes

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

I've never had money before in my life. Ever. Never, ever.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

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

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

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 money growing up.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

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.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.