Hand-to-mouth Quotes

When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

I have often been asked, 'How is it that Ireland could formerly support a population of eight millions as compared with only five now?’ The answer is simple: Eight millions could still exist if the potato crop were a certainty, and if the people were now content to exist as they did then. But to the then existing population-living at best in a light-hearted and hopeful, hand-to-mouth contentment-there was a terrible awakening.

For years, I survived as an artist on grants and touring as a dancer with dance companies, and I was living underground like so many artists, hand-to-mouth and so forth. And I never had the power to make decisions.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

I was poor. I struggled big time, living hand to mouth so I could be the kind of artist I want to be.

If you're raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really stingy billionaires. I come from such a generation of hand-to-mouthers.

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.