Angus Young Quotes

You make a movie, and if there's a red light flashing in the distance, everyone thinks that the director had a whole lot of money and a great idea that the red light means something. Then you say, 'Yeah, we couldn't afford to shut the red light off that was broken two blocks away.'

You've got to deal with the tools you have in hand. I'm a firm believer in that.

With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

When you cannot have something, you make what you have work.

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

Because we had no money when I was growing up, when I started dancing, I wasn't allowed to be frivolous - my mum made me go to every lesson because she was paying for it.

You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.

I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.

A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

We embrace the shoestring budget. We like being limited by the constraints. It inspires creativity. I don't know what we would spend money on. We don't hire actors. We see budget constraints as a personal challenge. We're like survivalist local commercial directors.

Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

The A's were a team with very few resources. We didn't have access to players who were obviously great, who could do it all and were always in the headlines. We couldn't afford those types of players. So we had to figure out a way of cobbling together players into a team that might be competitive.

When you cannot have steak, either you eat egg or you don't eat. So, in the end, you eat egg and you enjoy it.

Often when you have less to work with, you do more.

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

Where man had been, in every place he left, garbage remained. Even in his pursuit of the ultimate truth and quest for his God, he produced garbage. By his garbage, which lay stratum upon stratum, he could always - one had only to dig - be known. For more long-lived than man is his refuse. Garbage alone lives after him.

Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.

This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it