On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.

There's little money in theatre.

My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money.

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife.

We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.