Amy Sedaris Quotes

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.

I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.

We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

We called ourselves '2 Too Many' because we only had enough money for one of us.

Yeah, I came over to Cambridge with 500 quid in my pocket and I had to borrow a waistcoat off another Australian player. I couldn't afford to buy one.

You make a movie, and if there's a red light flashing in the distance, everyone thinks that the director had a whole lot of money and a great idea that the red light means something. Then you say, 'Yeah, we couldn't afford to shut the red light off that was broken two blocks away.'

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

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

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.

My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to another bar. I lived that way when I was unemployed, when I was a snowboard instructor, and when I was at NYU. A lot of my personality is stuck in those five years, and I don't know if that's ever gonna change.

We didn't have money for toys, so I made my own.

If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.

I used to live off of nothing.

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

When I was studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse, I would overdraft my bank account and not have enough money to buy groceries. But I also discovered how to cook with very limited resources.