The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
I really don't care if anyone thinks I'm special or not, I just want to be able to live my life without thinking about money all the time, or where I'm going to get it.
You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'
Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.
Money is a never-ending problem.
I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out.
I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'
I like not having to worry about paying the bills, but I have to watch myself because I don't come from money.
I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.
The only people who really worry about money are the very poor and the very rich.
God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”)
My parents were very strapped for cash when we were growing up.
When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
If I was born into a household with anxiety about money, I wouldn't have had as much freedom to be in my own world. So it's impossible for me to divorce the privilege of my childhood from the other things.
I have a poverty demon. I'll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he'll say, 'What are you talking about?'
Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.
Going from worrying about money to not worrying about money. It's all unreal. It's hard to take in.
Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.
I'll always be poor in my mind.
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.
There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.
I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.
Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.
Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.
