Anna Kendrick Quotes

I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out.

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage.

Being able to provide for me and my brother and my family, that's pressure.

When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.

I just felt like I couldn't deal with the everyday responsibilities of life, paying bills and all of that. I'm terrible at all of that. So I knew I had to make enough money to pay someone else to deal with all of that.

Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

My pecuniary circumstances (barely competent) and my settled domestic habits make it very undesirable for me to be in high office with low pay—it subjects a man to great temptations to live above his income, and thus become dishonest; and if he have the courage to live economically, it subjects his family to ridicule.

I justified working so hard by knowing that I was helping to maintain the roof over our heads.

No doubt, my parents were hardworking, you know, middle class. My father, when my sister and I were younger, he was a parking attendant at the old Dunes Hotel and Casino. My mother was a bookkeeper in a title company.

I don't come from a rich family, but my parents are professionals.

Most of our lives are dictated by money and when we lose or gain some, we change so much as an individual.

Once you start getting money, it relieves your stress of worrying about how you're going to pay your next bill. It's more like another stress of how many bills you have to pay.

It always seems to me that my life would look completely different if I didn't have to take care of the rent.

I grew up in the middle class.

I am human and get insecure because I am a middle class man and I need to feed my family and acting is the only job I know.

I thought it'd be different. Kind of like, a lot of weight lifted off of my shoulders, as I don't have to worry about finances for the rest of my life, or my family's. But it wasn't like that. It was more - there's things I need to get done.

My mom, her money going was straight to the bills.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

I am hard-core middle class.

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.