Matt Berry Quotes

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

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

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

I grew up poor.

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

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 mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that?

I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

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

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.

We were pretty cash-strapped for all those years when I took over.

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.