Quotes About Money

You can teach anybody wrestling moves, hopefully, if they have an athletic bone in their body. However, the ones that are going to make money and be different are the ones with personality.

Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.

A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.

Some are in it for the money, which is fine. Some of them are in it to be a movie star; that's another reason. Some actors - and this I never understand - will only play likeable characters. And if they're not likeable, they change them to be heroic.

Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

I've sat in so many meetings where they talk about converting movies to 3D just for the China market and just to make more money. I saw that people in China work long, long hours and that it's expensive to go to the movies, and you want to rip them off for even more money? I don't think that's right.

You'd be amazed how much attention $1 million will get you.

From where I sit, I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble, they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot more money.

Multiple Bentleys isn't making anyone 'financially set.'

Teach the kids. They need to learn how to handle, grow and multiply money. It's basic and should be taught at an early stage.

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.

I spend my money on cars. That's why I have a Challenger. It's a muscle car, like a Mustang. It's big and rumbly.

Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.

My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places, that's great. The music industry is weird, especially with the Internet. People are calling you all kinds of weird stuff, like 'jangly.'

There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.

In this music industry, you'll find the differences with artists. You get some people who really love music... and you get people who do this because they want to have money or want to be famous.

My family had no money or social connections with the music industry but I came to London and had some success that continues to influence my life.

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.

A long time ago, Prince said that no musician is ever gonna make money off the Internet, and he was right.

A lot of musicians put diamonds on things to show they had money. I on the other had felt that Daytona showed I had style and I didn't need to be flashy.

One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lot of money are the people that want to make money more than anyone. I've seen it with athletes, I've seen it with musicians, you know?

I just don't like mutual funds. I think they're a rip-off.