Money Quotes

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that.

We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

If we get the donations, I think we're going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants.

It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

I feel sick if I have to do something for the money. I can't breathe. I'm not proud of myself.

With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows.