Val Guest Quotes

I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.

I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there, playing the guitar at union meetings, functions. I sold some science-fiction stories. I knew there was absolutely no question of me not being connected with the arts, but I couldn't find any acting jobs.

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I wasn't going to make a living at it.

Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make some money and pay the bills.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

We have hardly enough money to last till the end of March.

I was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own.

There came a point when I was thinking, 'I'm now 26, 27, working on music every day, but I'm not making, like, a lot of money. What's happening? I guess I'll just start making dog clothes.'

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.

I don't make any money.

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

I worked for a charity for a while, but... well, I started acting while I was in high school. I kind of just got lucky enough to live at my parents' house until I was actually making enough money to be somebody's roommate.

I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.

My mom was a hairstylist, but she quit doing that to raise the kids - there were four of us. There was no money.