72 Movie Quotes about Financial Struggle (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Jan 6, 2026

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.

41 I get drunk and spend all money. I don't know why, but that's the way with most sailor fella.

Greta Garbo as Anna Christie in Anna Christie (1930)

42 My father had a thriving undertaking business until you proceeded to get ahold of it and run it into the ground!

Vincent Price as Waldo Trumbull in The Comedy of Terrors

43 Well, look here. We don't earn a cent, see? My company is practically bankrupt. -Your books certainly proves that.

Edward G. Robinson as Joe Krozac in The Last Gangster

44 Just like my family. They couldn't wait for the depression, they went broke during the boom.

Howard Duff in Batman (1966)

45 Hey, take a look around this neighborhood, mister. Who do you think got money for a chauffeur? Not even for food he got money.

Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune in Rocky Fortune

46 The poor don't cheat one another. We're all poor together.

Keefe as Jerry Manning in The Leopard Man (1943)

47 I am from Moldavia. My country is very poor, you see. So in order to make money, we have decided to encourage tourism. We need this banana in order to open a fruit stand.

Lorenzo Music as Garfield in Garfield's Feline Fantasies

48 Once we were just shepherds, and so poor, we felt lucky to eat. And so peaceful, we kissed the hand that whipped us.

Steve Reeves as Romulus And Remus; Steve Reeves as Romulus in Duel of the Titans (1961)

49 Come on, let's face reality. I'm thirty-three, I'm living on the charity of my brother. Room and board free. Fifty cents a week for cigarettes. An occasional ticket to a show or concert, all out of the bigness of his heart.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

50 All our lives we have seen our women suffer: poverty, hunger, thirst, sickness, misery. -We have seen nothing else. -We have borne this a long time.

Betty Garde as Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

72 Movie Quotes about Financial Struggle (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Latest Movie Sound Bites

Poll