Quotes About Struggle

A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.

Film is my passion. I had no money, after Human Zoo. I was completely broke. It was horrible. My film was in Berlin on opening night, but I couldn't even get to Berlin.

Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

I did a handful of photo shoots and I never made any money for it just because I was trying to build a portfolio. I decided that that's not what I wanted to do.

I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.

You never know what a person is going through, regardless of how much money they make or however great a life you think they're living.

It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.

Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.

You cannot believe how hard it is to try and raise money for a film. I did it for six years and it was such a failure.

I've had no money, absolutely, from my family. They paid for a good education - or schools that purported to be a good education - but, um, not a dime.