Noel Fielding Quotes

Economic security can feel like an impossible goal when you're living paycheck to paycheck, deciding between paying the light bill or the water bill, knowing the decision to pay either one may mean you can't put food on the table.

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

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

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.

As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.

I cannot afford to watch Fox News.

I don't make any money.

I do not say a dollar a day is enough to support a working man, but it is enough to support a man. Not enough to support a man and five children if a man insists on smoking and drinking beer.

You have to pay the bills when you're a single mum.

I remember the early days when every month I had to decide whether I should continue to lease a typewriter or if I could finally afford to buy it. Yes, that $12 a month really made a difference in our budget.

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

I was a struggling college student like everyone else. I bicycled to class.

I know what it's like to be in college and not have the budget to fully look the way I want to.

For most of my life, making music has cost me money. So I learned to live very, very cheaply.

I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living on student wages, then after I got my MA and started teaching, I lived on teacher's wages, which isn't much better.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

The less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food.

The laboring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present necessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.

We were living in a tough situation, but my mother managed; she juggled. Sometimes we'd pay the light bill, sometimes we paid the phone, sometimes the gas went off.

Too often, low-income Americans must choose between paying for medicine and having their heat shut off.

There's no advice for when you're out of money, and there's none coming in, and nobody's going to give you any.

I was doing a lot of great theatre, but I just couldn't work out how to make ends meet.

I used to scrimp with Judy in one-room apartments.

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