Jolene Blalock Quotes

I have a fear of being broke. That's what I have a fear of. I'm not kidding.

After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

I've been broke my whole life, you get what I'm saying? I'm scared of the bank.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.

There were times when I didn't have enough money, I didn't have enough work, and I would panic.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

I don't believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

Poverty is unnecessary.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

I am scared of running out of money.

Being poor with three small children is terrifying. You can't make any plans. You know you're not going on holiday, ever. There's no way you could ever afford driving lessons or a car. And the guilt I used to feel: they had holes in their shoes, and at one point, I had to send them to school wearing Wellingtons when the sun was shining.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.