Money Quotes
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I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.
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If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
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It's not exactly a big surprise that women mature earlier than men do. As a result, they tend to display better judgment, particularly when it comes to money.
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.
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A great stock, though with small profits, generally increases faster than a small stock with great profits. Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have a little, it is often easier to get more. The great difficulty is to get that little.
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I've been crazy lucky that I've never had a day job. I get really close to having no money, then I always wind up getting some kind of great job.
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I do see things that are funny on the net. I Googled myself the other day and found out that I was worth $250m, and that I was the highest-paid guy in show business! I wish so hard it was true. It is, of course, the complete opposite. I'm neither rich nor do I make a lot of money.
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're not feeling good, they don't wanna know we have a glitch. It's their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
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One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.
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Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going to make him money or save him money.
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My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.
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When I talk to girls, they go, 'I'm not a feminist.' And I say: 'What? You don't want to vote? Do you want to be owned by your husband? Do you want your money from your job to go into his bank account? If you were raped, do you still want that to be a crime? Congratulations : you are a feminist.'
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The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
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The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.
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If all that I was actually going to be allowed to have by the media was money, loads of money, then fuck it … What I actually wanted was something quiet and simple: a writer's community and respect.
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We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.
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Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
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Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest payday - that's what I want.
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I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don't like to talk about.
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Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.
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I'm used to doing big undertakings with my own money.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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'Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career.
