Martin Landau Quotes

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

I haven't always had the money rolling in. I'm a character actor; it's not like I'm Gwyneth Paltrow - so I do have hard times still in my life. And that's even more why it's like you know what, I'm not that different from people going through it. I struggle; I look for a better deal at the grocery store.

I can only spend $140 a month in here. I'm saving, like, $10,000 a day.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.

I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.

Starting out, iRobot was not an economic rocket ship. It took six and a half years before we had enough money in the bank at the beginning of each month to make payroll. We always made it - we paid salaries at the end of the month, and I always had four weeks to figure things out.

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

I'm not an extravagant person. You don't get a chance to spend money when you're working on a TV show.

I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.

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 am still writing my own checks for more or less substantial amounts every week in order to squeeze by the weekend.

Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.

If there's not enough money in the bank account, you don't spend it.

In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

I do my taxes. I do my own bookkeeping. I pay rent.

I've lived on $400 a month in college. I've lived on it fine.

For most of my life, making music has cost me money. So I learned to live very, very cheaply.

I was quite canny when I was doing 'EastEnders,' so the money went into property. I made sure that I didn't blow it all.

I'm saving money like there's no tomorrow because, when I was at Juilliard, I had so little. They gave me a full scholarship because I didn't come from a wealthy family or anything.