Scraping By Quotes

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

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

I never had a budget, I never had a manager, I never had a PR. I never had nothing. I was getting everything straight out the mud.

I hung onto Hollywood by the skin of my teeth, and at first I fought over every piece of bread. Later, I got very small parts.

I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.

Not a single, substantial, commercially-successful product had come from an adequately-finded team. They'd always come from the scrounging, scrapping, underfunded teams.

It's tough when you are fighting relegation.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

It's just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I've been there.