Modest Income Quotes

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

When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.

Growing our economy means allowing individuals, and particularly those in the middle class, to be able to keep more of their money. It also means that people in the middle class and modest incomes to be able to pay for their retirement, to get a down payment for a home, to send a child to college.

I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.

You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.

Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.

It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.

I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that.

My first month in syndication, I made about $100. I thought it would be exciting if I ever got up to the level where I could pay my rent.