Paul W. S. Anderson Quotes

I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.

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

I do smaller films, I'm not getting big paydays. I feel like we're just kind of scraping together here.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

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

My earliest memories were when my mom would put me in the plays that she was in because she couldn't afford a babysitter... she was part of this theater group.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

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

When I booked 'This Is Us,' I had 81 cents in my bank account.

When I was 18, I moved out of home. I decided to try to be an actor, so took myself off to slum it with nine humans and a million mice in a red Leytonstone house.

I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.

Nancy Reagan actually took some movies that she didn't want to take because they were [with Ronald Reagan] really strapped for cash.

I grew up poor, financially lower class. Worked in restaurants for 17 years while going to acting school and trying to become a working actor. Because I know what it's like to not have money, I turn down roles if I don't want to play them.

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

When I moved to London I couldn't afford to rent anywhere. So I housesat for a friend of my mum and dad's - and had to look after her sickly cat. That was the only way I could survive on a meagre intern wage.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, so my mom didn't have random money to buy me a car, and I didn't have money to have a car unless I worked, so I didn't get a car until I got my first job at 18.

I actually went to NYU for six months, had some family issues that kind of set me back, and I couldn't afford to go anymore. That was the theme going on in my whole life, you know: money stopping me from whatever I wanted to do.

I moved to L.A. straight out of graduating my arts high school and worked three jobs to afford living while taking acting classes and auditioning often.

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

We didn't grow up rich people.

I think that I'm lucky in that, even at levels where I, by and large, wasn't making enough money to sustain my life, I worked as a male nanny, I waited tables and did what I had to, to keep doing theater and acting.

I didn't have money growing up.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.