70 Movie Quotes about Financial Struggle (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jul 3, 2025

Memorable quotes about financial struggle, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 I have not eaten for days. -And who says you will?

Gerry Lopez as Subotai; Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan The Barbarian in Conan the Barbarian (1982)

2 Just look at that miserable creature, doggedly struggling to maintain life, a gaunt, lean bag of bones and feathers. Truly a picture of despair.

Edgar Bergen as Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd in Fun and Fancy Free

3 Potatoes. You've got to be poor to eat potatoes. Really poor.

Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

4 Where we came from, if one didn't want to die of poverty, one became a priest or a bandit.

Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

5 Children going hungry. Corruption everywhere.

Walt Disney as Mickey Mouse in Mickey Mouse

6 The mill's closed. There's no more work. We're destitute. Come in, my little loves. I've got no option but to sell you all, for scientific experiments.

Michael Palin in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

7 I have not little, Sephora. I have nothing.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

8 These guys don't appreciate I'm broke.

Scott Weinger as Aladdin in Aladdin (1992)

9 Are you mad? You were wiped out hours ago!

Charlie Chaplin as Monsieur Henri Verdoux in Monsieur Verdoux

10 In terms of money, we have no money. So how will we get to the moon? The answer is clear. We won't.

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

70 Movie Quotes about Financial Struggle (+ Sound Clips)

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