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Money Quotes


"You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more."


"I never take on anything that is just for the money or just for, you know. I always have to connect with it in a very personal way because I believe the audience will sense whether I'm into it or not, so I don't take on projects that I'm not really passionate about."


"I don't think Amber taped Scott or testified for money, but the opportunity certainly presented itself. It makes me a bit uncomfortable, but at least she never sold the story before trial to the tabloids."


"Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee."


"I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue."


"The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money."


"But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much."


"So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with the average across the prior three years and substantially more, by a country mile, than the money given to any other city."


"We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security."


"I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director."


"Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money."


"I don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude."


"That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there."


"I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer."



"Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there."


"I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements."


"I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money."


"I went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect - that was my dream. I was like, yeah I graduated from school, but it's not like you showed up for that. But all he was worried about is whether or not I wanted money from him."


"The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it."



"A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank."


"Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money."



"I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire."


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


"Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time."


"I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values."


"So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it."


"I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it."


"I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years."


"I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved."
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