My dad was a mechanical engineer and a drummer. We had no money, but I never felt we had no money, and that’s what I remember now, having my own child. I think, ‘Oh so what?’ Kids don’t go around the house seeing what’s wrong with it. – Donna Air
After every fight, I knock myself down. I start from scratch again. I say, ‘I’m not as good as I thought.’ It makes you work harder. It makes you push harder. It’s more than money. It’s more than the title. It’s my pride, and it can be scary thinking about it. I could lose. It’s scary. – Gerry Cooney
I worked in a boutique after work, my second job, selling women’s clothes. And that was a way of not just making money but meeting women. That was very exciting job. I loved that job. – Elie Tahari
I’m not trying to be the highest-paid receiver in the National Football League. I’ve never received that, and that’s not ever going to happen. So I’m fine with what I have, I make good money, and I’m happy about it. – Donald Driver
The media was always so focused on the money a movie makes. But I was in Times Square, and a bunch of Japanese tourists looked at me and started shouting, ‘Toula!’ I loved it. It’s these tiny moments of connection that register with me the most and always have. – Nia Vardalos
Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school. – Malin Akerman
California has set up regional collection offices around the world, staffed by California employees, specifically for out of state California businesses to collect the money and bring it back to California. – Craig Benson
In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national level, Congress should follow Maine’s example by empowering the voices of small donors. – Chellie Pingree
As a college student, you’re depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn’t hit me. – D’Brickashaw Ferguson
Everyone chases a bit of what they say life is about: money, desire… But when you stop chasing, you realise life is a rhythm and it’s very peaceful, very quiet. You see, it’s quite a miracle. – Nick Nolte
There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs. – Dan Levitan
There’s not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven’t spent any money of your taxes in the last decade. – Chaka Fattah
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. – Francis Ford Coppola
You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That’s how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment – and watch it, I believe it will – this is how things go. – Nathan Fillion
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. – Erica Jong
In the end, you’re trying to find God. That’s the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn’t matter how much money, or property, or whatever you’ve got, unless you’re happy in your heart, then that’s it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you’ve got that state of consciousness that enables that. – George Harrison
If you have money and you have fame, but you don’t have any confidence in your blackness, then it’s all for nothing. – Paul Mooney
We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world. – Dorothy Day
I think at a certain level compared – as was pointed out earlier, compared to what is happening in Europe, the United States still gets the safe-haven money. But underlying that, the United States is not the safe haven but perhaps the most dangerous place of all. – Mark Steyn
The idea of solving as huge and long-term a problem as inequality – which, for my money, is the biggest single problem we have here at home – just never gets serious concern from both sides. – George Packer
I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn’t want money. I didn’t care about fame. – Christine Lahti
The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation. – Evangelos Venizelos
You’re either making money or you’re not. If you’re not making money get out of the business. – Meredith Whitney
I also don’t like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don’t like. – Dario Argento
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him. – Dorothy L. Sayers
I think that George Lucas’ ‘Star Wars’ films are fantastic. What he’s done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today. – Peter Jackson