Zach Galifianakis Quotes

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

My relationship with my first child was nonexistent. I was broke and I was a new rapper whose career was spiraling downward.

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'

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

For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.

My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.

Geniuses sometimes end up very unhappy, without a penny.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.

'Sunrise Sunset' is a letter I wrote to a girl I was once with who I really thought I was going to fall in love with. We tried to make it work but always had trouble maintaining a real relationship because we were both so caught up with work, life, and everything else that at the time seemed like it was the priority.

He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

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.

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

This is a wonderful year for raw truth. We don't have any money.

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

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

My ribs ache from all the texts I'll never make time for.

When I was growing up, we didn't have much money. What was important in my house was to have food on the table, be happy, and have our family.