Financial Desperation Quotes

I had five dollars in the bank that I couldn't have for three days until they charged me another 15. Leaving me with -10. What does that mean? I don't even have no money any more. I wish I had nothing. But I don't have it. I don't have that much. I have not ten. Negative ten. I can't afford to buy something that doesn't cost anything. I can only afford to get something that costs you give me ten dollars.

It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.

Selling the family silver.

I hated having to go out on the block and scramble - that's the worst job in the world, especially if you ain't making any real money.

I have made mistakes in my career by associating with films which were mediocre because I needed money at that time.

Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money.

If you've got a mortgage, and you've got bills to pay, you might tend to do some stupid things.

There was no sacrifice in acting for me, even when I was starving in New York. I went three days without eating. Charlie Bronson and I sold blood for $5 so that we could eat.

I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

If you're living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you'll be even smarter the second time around.

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

Newt Gingrich's campaign is broke. All the money gone. So now he's charging $50 for a photo. And for $100 you can marry him.

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

I have noticed that these pop bands will play our hillbilly songs when they cain't eat any other way!

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

Being dead broke is the Root of all Evil.

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.