Money Quotes

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

~ Ron Livingston

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

~ Evan Esar

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

~ Michael Morpurgo

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

~ Bill Murray

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

~ Russell Brand

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

~ Lady Gaga

No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.

~ Bill Goldberg

Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

~ Dolly Parton

I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.

~ Kate Winslet

I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars.

~ Pierce Brosnan

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.

~ Ron White

It's great to make your own choices, but there's a price to pay. I could've made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy.

~ Michael Keaton

I'm an active participation guy. No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.

~ Bill Goldberg

Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.

~ Kevin Bacon

The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they need the money, of course; it's a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish.

~ Michael Korda

My name is not big enough for people to go, 'Let me throw money at you because you're so famous!'

~ Nikki Reed

It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.

~ Mike Posner

I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.

~ Alice Waters

Jesus of Nazareth was the most famous human being who ever lived on this planet, and he had no infrastructure, and it's never been done. He had no government, no PR guy, no money, no structure. He had nothing, yet he became the most famous human being ever.

~ Bill O'reilly

I didn't get into writing to make money or get famous or any of that. I got into it to hit hearts, and man, when I get letters not just from the soldiers but from their kids, especially their kids, it makes it all worthwhile.

~ Tim O'brien

I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

~ Ruth Negga

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

~ Liz Phair

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.

~ Bill Murray

Even though I am fortunate to have certain luxuries, sometimes, I am even amazed by what people with money have and do. I want to remind people that just because you might be rich and famous, it doesn't mean you have to take yourself too seriously.

~ Nick Cannon

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.

~ Eva Herzigova

I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.

~ Damien Rice

There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.

~ Tobey Maguire

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

~ David Mccallum

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

~ Wilhelm Steinitz

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

~ Norman O. Brown

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

~ Plautus

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

~ Edmund Hillary

There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

~ David Baltimore

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

~ Suze Orman

When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons. After about six weeks, the violin teacher told my father he was wasting his money, wasting his time, and wasting my time, and it's one of my big regrets.

~ Roger Moore

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

~ Steve Guttenberg

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

~ Dave Grohl

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

~ Wendy Kopp