I do smaller films, I'm not getting big paydays. I feel like we're just kind of scraping together here.
At the time me and X met, we weren't homeless, but we were basically homeless.
It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.
I grew up poor, financially lower class. Worked in restaurants for 17 years while going to acting school and trying to become a working actor. Because I know what it's like to not have money, I turn down roles if I don't want to play them.
I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.
I recall the hard work that my family went through just to continue to live the lifestyle that we were living, which wasn't by any means a great lifestyle.
I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.
It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.
I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.
I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.
I wasn't born into money and there have been jobs in the past that I've not wanted to take on, but I've had to because of the money.
I never felt poverty as a child as we never knew anything else.
When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.
As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.
Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.
You worked every day to earn what's on the table, literally. It was a week-to-week thing. And I wouldn't change it. I would not change it for anything.
I've known what it's like to survive without a steady job. Growing up in the Philippines, I watched my parents juggle part-time jobs at the corner shop and as tailors, barely able to make ends meet for my three brothers and me.
Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills.
I'm basically a starving artist.
As an artist, I'm very used to waking up and sort of not knowing what my day's going to be and not knowing where my next paycheck is going to come from.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.
My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.
