Quotes About Career

People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.

OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.

Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career.

I don't have to play football for money.

When you're used to making your money a certain way, especially when you fall in love with the way you're doing it, going back to pursue your true passion can be kind of nerve wracking.

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.

I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful.

When I started in radio, I worked for free. I lived at the radio station. Then I worked for very little money.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

Broadway isn't a very big career move. There's no money in it and it doesn't mean anything to your career. It's just a nice little jewel in the crown.

It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?

It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It comes down to a money thing.

You never get tired of making money, and you never get tired of a great acting gig, a same role that you can play for years, with wonderful writing and wonderful actors.

I like keeping my mind as far away from money and the material aspects of my job as possible.

I'm always feeling like I have to do some bad action movie for money.

My best piece of advice is to do something you're passionate about. If you do - you'll do it well - and the money follows.

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.

I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.

Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.

I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.

I've been making music ever since, but it was never something I thought I could make any money doing.

There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.