Quotes About Value

Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.

If you're going to collect things because you think they have value, then don't collect. For me, you have to be obsessed, and there has to be something educational.

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

A real collector does not sell.

There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic value.

I don't want to sell to street art collectors, I want to sell to art collectors.

It doesn't matter if I'm playing a lead role or that of a comedian; I want my audience to have entertainment worth their money.

I have to say that my background in comedy, of performing live, has been such a great foundation for what we do now on camera. I really value having that kind of experience. Because when you're doing comedy shows you're writing your own material and trying it out on people and you know people find funny and don't.

As far as I know, no kid ever bought a children's book himself with his own money, but they'll buy comic books. So we better make them good.

Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.

Commercial success and quality are not necessarily allied.

I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

I am not a saleable commodity.

Everything does not have to be a commodity.

I wouldn't say I'm a commodity. I try not to think about it too much.

To me, beauty is a commodity and that's the way it's treated in my books. It has power, and though that power is limited, some characters understand that better than others.

I wanted to communicate how important it is to love on the people that are in our lives and to take every day with someone as a blessing.

Books and people are hard to compare.

I do what I do because I like doing it. I'm well paid for it. I get far too much adulation compared with what it's worth.

I mean, really, compared to a senior civil servant, I'm very modestly paid!

I don't think I have to combat Airbnb. It is like comparing Tiffany to a shop that sells things for one dollar.

There is no money in the world that would compensate me for writing a lousy book.