Money Quotes

"No, I never thought about my father's money as my money"

"There's so many companies that are spending so much money on 17-year-olds... I can't compete with that. I'm not that guy anymore, they can't dress me up and roll me out there and make me look good. I am what I am!"

Bob Mould, Musician

"We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well"

Robby Krieger, Musician

"Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter"

William Allan, Artist

"Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic"

Robert Rodriguez, Director

"We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation"

Peter Akinola, Clergyman

"The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition"

Ida Tarbell, Journalist

"If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war"

Marc Faber, Businessman

"I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent"

Ronnie Hawkins, Musician

"Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste"

Daniel Starch

"We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere"

Jerry Kramer, Athlete

"If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it"

Bill Kurtis, Journalist

"It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money"

Hal Sparks, Actor

"I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music"

Gregg Allman, Musician

"Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it"

Fannie Hurst, Writer

"I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief"

Vittorio De Sica, Director

"While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom"

Samuel Dash, Lawyer

"I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor"

Samuel Dash, Lawyer

"I can understand why those bands do it. It can be a hell of a lot of bloody fun. People are allowed to have a bit of fun after the age of 40, and a lot of them do need the money"

Nik Kershaw, Musician

"So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff"

Neil Abercrombie, Politician

"Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media"

Maureen Reagan, Celebrity

"The money is great, no way am I complaining"

David Wells, Athlete

"The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get"

Thomas Lennon, Actor

"All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it"

Thomas Lennon, Actor

"I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty"

Jimmy Dean, Actor

"Success produces success, just as money produces money"

Diane Ackerman, Poet

"I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world"

Stephen Baldwin, Actor

"I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little"

Rick Pitino, Athlete

"As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think "actor" and see some easy money"

Matt Damon, Actor

"My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money"

James Green Somerville

"I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does"

Grace Kelly, Actress

"The one thing women love more than money is power"

D. L. Hughley, Actor

"People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition"

Bob Nelson

"When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though"

Penelope Spheeris, Director

"Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them"

Penelope Spheeris, Director

"I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance"

Tim Roth, Actor

"When you look at what we spend on entertainment, whether it's on CDs, music, DVDs, there is so much money invested in that, people want to know a little more about the stars they're paying to see or hear"

Mary Hart, Entertainer

"The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money"

Marc Wallice, Actor

"Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in"

Stephen Collins, Actor

"The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie"

Peter Bart, Editor

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