Money Quotes

"I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object"

"After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs"

Mitch McConnell, Politician

"Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun"

Larry Hagman, Actor

"I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north"

John Prescott, Politician

"Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality"

Lara St. John, Musician

"Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying"

Elliott Smith, Musician

"Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money"

Charles S. Dutton, Actor

"The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

"A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'"

Robert B. Parker, Writer

"Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters"

Robin Tunney, Actress

"I'm not interested in wasting money on a project"

Stanley Tucci, Actor

"Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?"

Roy H. Williams, Businessman

"Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in"

Kevin Spacey, Actor

"We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities you fund the priorities of the country and you stop spending money when you get to zero"

Tim Scott, Politician

"I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever"

Joanna Newsom, Musician

"I don't know the time frame exactly, but it's clear they're all going to want to start spending money again"

Andrew Gould, Businessman

"I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy"

Jim Cramer, Businessman

"Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it"

Alanna Ubach, Actress

"The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me"

Ethel Waters, Musician

"In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios"

Griffin Dunne, Actor

"Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture"

Griffin Dunne, Actor

"People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets"

Ed Markey, Politician

"There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong"

George Stephanopoulos, Celebrity

"Nobody has money right now. And eating is very important, but it doesn't need to be expensive. And to make - it doesn't need to be fancy, as long as it's fresh and simple. The simpler it is, the more fancy it actually comes out tasting"

Debi Mazar, Actress

"After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world"

Dino De Laurentiis, Director

"I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year"

Dabney Coleman, Actor

"There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed"

Debi Mazar, Actress

"Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere"

Eli Wallach, Actor

"When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research"

John Ratzenberger, Actor

"You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money"

Bill Janklow, Politician

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