Richard Madden Quotes

I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

'The Squid and the Whale' I shot in 23 days. I would have loved more time for it at the time, but in some ways that kind of kamikaze way of shooting was right for that movie.

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

I do smaller films, I'm not getting big paydays. I feel like we're just kind of scraping together here.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

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.

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

In film work, you do the best you can under the given circumstances, but you don't have control. At least, I don't.

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

I've done movies where they didn't have enough money to have trailers.

I am from a poor background in Portugal. We were medium-down, not down-and-out. My parents felt problems around food in the past but they made sure I did not miss anything. But there was nothing extra, no luxuries.

We were an underprivileged family. My parents were both tailors. We got by. But we only had a few important things in our life.

We never considered Christmas a holiday because the budget was really tight, so Christmas was just a usual day for us.

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

I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.

We called ourselves '2 Too Many' because we only had enough money for one of us.

I grew up in Plaza East public housing in the Western Addition, five of us living on $900 per month. 'Recycling' meant drinking out of old mayonnaise jars.

Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.

I had to let go of many things because we did not have much money growing up. Like joining the Film Institute in Pune or learning the piano.

Yeah, I came over to Cambridge with 500 quid in my pocket and I had to borrow a waistcoat off another Australian player. I couldn't afford to buy one.