Scraping Quotes

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

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.