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Quotes About Rent

I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along.
~ Matthew Lillard
I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.
~ Anna Kendrick
Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.
~ Bridget Kelly
I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.
~ Matthew Goode
I don't think I've got the stuff that Broadway musicals are made of. But there are definitely many musicals that I enjoy. 'Hair' and 'Rent' might be my favorites.
~ Sebastian Stan
A lot of times, we also have to live and work. You have to make money to pay rent. In that respect, I don't think you can be so demanding. Those great stories are not the normal stories that come on a daily basis. It's a struggle to land those roles. Everybody is looking for the good parts.
~ Djimon Hounsou
When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.
~ Luke Evans
I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.
~ Suheir Hammad
I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.
~ Travie McCoy
I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them.
~ John Patrick Shanley
You have to do whatever jobs you can to pay the rent.
~ Emilia Clarke
It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment... because it doesn't take any more corraling, no more electricity, rent, machinery or labour to double your production on an existing place.
~ Joel Salatin
In my own constituency, the benefit cap has had the effect of social cleansing: of people receiving benefit, but the benefit is capped; therefore, they can't meet the rent levels charged and are forced to move. It's devastating for children, devastating for the family and very bad for the community as a whole.
~ Jeremy Corbyn
I can write anywhere that's quiet. I have a study in my apartment, but I often work in the kitchen of a house that we rent in the country.
~ Jonathan Galassi
When you ask people why they were evicted, the big reason is nonpayment of rent. They can't afford to keep a roof over their heads. Utilities are a big part of the story too, while the third leg on the table is the lack of government help with housing.
~ Matthew Desmond
As a single guy, the baseline of what I needed was so low. I just needed an air mattress, food, and rent money.
~ Hasan Minhaj
Trump has a lot of contacts in the world of charity because he rents out ballrooms, hotel ballrooms, the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago to charities. Charities are often the ones that rent out these ballrooms for big events.
~ David Fahrenthold
I love Monopoly. You know why? When I play Monopoly with you, I'm going to buy everything from Baltic Avenue to Marvin Gardens. If you get to my side of the board, you'd better roll boxcars, or you're going to pay rent.
~ Kevin Plank
Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent of your income to rent - and eviction becomes something of an inevitability to you, it denies you certain freedoms.
~ Matthew Desmond
If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord to evict a tenant who falls behind under those circumstances, eviction becomes an inevitability.
~ Matthew Desmond
You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.
~ Matthew Desmond
The thing that's different about 'Girls' and 'Sex and the City' isn't just that we live in Brooklyn; it's that these girls aren't trying to find their major career paths or life partners. They're just literally trying to get through the week and pay the rent. It's a really different time of life.
~ Jennifer Konner
We had bills to pay. My dad wasn't working, and it was tough for my mom. People were always raising the rent, so I had to work, too. Everybody in the house worked to pay the rent.
~ Jason Pierre-Paul
As long as the rent's getting paid, you don't think about getting out of the game.
~ John Cho