Money Quotes

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.'s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market.

There's way easier ways to make money, let's just put it that way.

After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

Money is... I'm very conscious of it because I have it. It's powerful, man. It can change you ever so slightly, ever so slowly, and all of a sudden you're addicted to a million-dollar lifestyle and you've got no choice but to make a bad movie.

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.

That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

You can tell five minutes into it what a girl is after, when she starts asking how much money I make or tells me, 'I wanna be an actress.'

People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves.

We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.

Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.

I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

People didn't stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I've thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don't have the same stress that other people have, but there are too many things I could have done differently if wealth was what I was after. If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A.

My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.

I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

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

Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.

The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

When you get money you're always a target because there's always somebody who needs money out there.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.