I was super-obsessed with the Spice Girls. Ginger was my favorite. They had a tour in 2008, and my home girls went, but I didn’t have the money to go! – Kreayshawn
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It’s elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best. – Linwood Barclay
You don’t make any money being an artist. Writing and producing? You get your money from that. You live comfortable. – Missy Elliott
My experience with music, I’m not going to say extremely negative, but it’s definitely been a grind; it’s been grimy – it hasn’t been a pretty process. It’s left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it’s been worth it, it’s my passion, my dream, it’s what I love to do. – Kat Graham
I’ve certainly auditioned for big budget studio films. I don’t know if it’s because there’s so much money involved, but a lot of times the pressure overwhelms me and engulfs me. I end up falling apart in the audition. – Jason Ritter
But it’s a blessing to be so successful within a year; it’s the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I’m doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I’m doing. – Ludacris
It’s so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don’t have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head. – Kelly Osbourne
America has always fascinated me; it’s a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook. – Joe Dempsie
At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me. – Jack Bruce
Of course, I’d like to earn Jonathan Ross’s money, but I don’t have sleepless nights wondering when someone’s going to knock on my door with sacks of cash. – Mariella Frostrup
Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It’s money that’s dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money. – John Dos Passos
Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money. – Jim Rogers
I couldn’t relate to kid stuff. ‘Jimmy doesn’t like me!’ Who cares? I was worried we didn’t have gas money or food. Those were my concerns. – Leighton Meester
I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I’m paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself. – Ken Livingstone
I don’t need the money after 11 years on ‘Frasier,’ and there aren’t that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I’m more interested in playing those roles than I am in playing bit parts in movies. – John Mahoney
Public-policy-wise, if you want to be consistent, crude oil is a bulk commodity, and you should be able to export it. I would rather the crude go to U.S. refineries to get refined and then export the refined product because we get double, triple the money. – John Shimkus
It’s not how many tickets can we sell, it’s where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don’t really care about that. – Jerry Only
My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn’t make a living, he couldn’t support himself. He worked all the time and he didn’t make enough money to have a house, have an apartment. – Jeffrey Jones
I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life. – Ken Livingstone
The first thing about Houston is it’s an organization run from a different perspective. In Cincy, the team lives off money it earns from football. Houston’s owner has other business interests, and he controls the money. – Johnathan Joseph
I think the trend to move towards caucuses and conventions, whether to nominate senators, governors or presidential nominees, I think the move towards caucuses and conventions is a very bad one, and that our party should reward those states that spend the time and money to have primaries. – Mitt Romney
For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I’m not. You know, I need someone to put up the money. – John Landis
Refurbishing I’ve done in the first three years and I’m still giving housing money, of course, to the north. – John Prescott
My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‘Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?’ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career. – Michelle Obama
The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn’t about money. It was about teaching, or learning. – Maya Lin