Adam Page Quotes

I never wanted to have to take a job because I didn't have any money.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

If I lost my job, I'd get a job at McDonald's.

Wrestling was a part-time thing and I was starving doing it. When the opportunity came up to wrestle with WWE and come to the states, it was a no-brainer.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

Bill Hewlett and I were brought up in the Depression. We weren't interested in the idea of making any money. Our idea was if you couldn't find a job, you'd make one for yourself.

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

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

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

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

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

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

My mum was a single mum on the dole.

Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.