Tracey Ullman Quotes

If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself.

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.

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.

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

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.

It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position.

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I couldn't make it. I couldn't. So, I tried this gentlemen's club, and, you know, I worked there, and it was just awful in those places. It was terrible.

We're broke. It's never a fun message to deliver.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

l had a job, and if you had a job in the depression you were rich.

The Devil dances in an empty pocket.

... avaricious to a most infamous degree; needy at the same time, having a numerous family to provide for

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

I know what not being able to pay your bills feels like real well... I know that way better than a room full of beautiful people and Tony awards and Grammy awards.

For a long time after I left 'Bonanza,' I was considered too independent. That meant I got the rejects other actors could afford turning down. I did theater which I loved, but it cannot pay the bills.

I went dead broke - twice! - trying to get Gas Monkey up and going. And when I say broke, I mean sleeping on my sister's couch and can't pay-the-rent type broke.

I had a year, where... I was secretly, 100 percent, dead broke.