Simon Pegg Quotes

Michael Johnson doesn't pay my bills or sign my cheques. So I don't really care what he has to say.

My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is a part of who I am.

Unless you have financial resources of your own, you can't be free.

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.

For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

I'm letting no man handle my bank account.

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.

I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.

Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent - whether you use it or not.

I like not having to worry about paying the bills, but I have to watch myself because I don't come from money.

My mom laid the foundation that in order for you to be successful, you have to take care of the books first. That's one thing she preached about, because at any point, other stuff can be taken away.

When you're further along in your career, you probably have more money and more means; you have to stop yourself from giving your child too much. Whereas, if you're in twenties, you might just get by.

When you earn your own money you feel much better about yourself.

I don't have the habit of asking money from my parents.

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

I've never been good at the money thing. I have had a couple of really nice but inept managers, and a business accountant that ripped me off. But I cannot totally blame my money making lameness on them.

I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again. I had been so irresponsible in how I dealt with my financial affairs. I take full responsibility for that.

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.

Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.