Living Paycheck to Paycheck Quotes

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

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.

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

I haven't always had the money rolling in. I'm a character actor; it's not like I'm Gwyneth Paltrow - so I do have hard times still in my life. And that's even more why it's like you know what, I'm not that different from people going through it. I struggle; I look for a better deal at the grocery store.

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I am still writing my own checks for more or less substantial amounts every week in order to squeeze by the weekend.

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

I grew up in New York City during the Depression. My earliest recollections were of my parents talking about what they would do if they didn't have the rent money. Luckily, we were never evicted. But my father was unemployed most of the time.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.

I know what it's like to have to put back food at the checkout line because you don't have enough money and those kinds of things.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

I may have been in financial difficulties, but I'm not a pauper.

I don't believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.