Money Quotes

"I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game"

Patricia Richardson, Actress

"Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T"

Louie Gohmert, Politician

"I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight"

LL Cool J, Musician

"San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be"

Les Claypool, Musician

"If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor"

Jim McKay, Journalist

"Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music"

Jamie Muir

"But if I had to do it, handle money, then I think I could be responsible, yes"

Soundarya, Actress

"Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it"

Sonny Bono, Musician

"Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear"

Robert Shea, Author

"There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"And I also serve on a caucus that addresses financial literacy for young people in this country. And it is so hypocritical that we want to talk to these kids about how to better manage their money when we are not doing a good job with our Nation's resources"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies"

Madeleine Albright, Statesman

"The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you"

Katharine Whitehorn

"I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"Marrying into money was not a good thing for me"

Anna Nicole Smith, Model

"Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money"

John Fahey, Musician

"But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance"

Heidi Klum, Model

"If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours"

Ray Kroc, Businessman

"The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose"

Miroslav Vitous, Musician

"I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood"

Kevin Bacon, Actor

"If I could have come in for $10m, I would have done that. I've been pretty smart with my money. I'm playing because I want to play this game here - I want the opportunity"

Karl Malone, Athlete

"The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in"

Guy Lafleur, Athlete

"I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig"

Joe Rogan, Comedian

"Now Congress learns that the Veterans Administration failed to provide complete, accurate information on the money it needs for both this year and next year"

Doc Hastings, Politician

"We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country"

Dick Morris, Author

"The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?"

Dick Schaap, Journalist

"I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become"

Donald Pleasence, Actor

"I still manage to spend around 40 hours a week at work but it is a lot more focused on what can make money as opposed to what makes me look good in the papers"

Benjamin Cohen, Journalist

"The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people"

Leslie Caron, Actress

"I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house"

Herschel Walker, Athlete

"The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team"

Hayden Fry, Coach

"The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell"

Fareed Zakaria, Journalist

"Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas"

Peter DeFazio, Politician

"I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is"

Paul Harvey, Journalist

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