Simon Beaufoy Quotes

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

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.

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

I have been down and out, living in Brooklyn, no money even for a subway, no food whatsoever. Like, I remember just sitting in my room all day - even my television wasn't working!

Tough times were when I didn't have a job and nobody called me.

If you've just been sacked from work, with no money coming in and a baby to feed, clothe and keep warm, it's unlikely you'll have a thousand pounds or so to spare.

I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere, which was part of the reason I was homeless. I couldn't get a job pumping gas. I couldn't get a job working at a warehouse, I couldn't get a job at Baskin Robbins, I couldn't get a job anywhere.

There was a time when I had no work, and I had to sit at home for 4 years.

I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I used to listen to 'Ready to Die' around the time I dropped out of college. I was scrambling for work and money.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.