James Spader Quotes

I have to be out there to sell these fights; it's not because I really enjoy getting made up and going to work every day. It's cool, it's an awesome job, but it's still a job. I'm doing it because it helps me make a living and not because I'm so extremely vain that I want to see my face everywhere.

Modeling is not a passion of mine. I have been having fun with it, but it's just to pay the bills.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

My family were really hard-working, blue-collar people, and I didn't know the idea or concept of working and having fun. I thought you just worked and made money to support your family.

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.

Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.

I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

It helps if you really enjoy your jobs. If you don't, then just think about the money.

Yes, I will sign a film for the money. Because sometimes you don't have the money to eat, and you have to get work and maintain a lifestyle. Not just actors - I think everybody does that. No job on this planet is about 100 per cent satisfaction. You do some part of the job for money.

I don't really have the desire, as far as love of the game. It's more about the paycheck I can make.

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.

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

I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one's own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me.

I wasn't that academic, but I always made sure I was earning money. I never wanted to put all my eggs in one basket. Even when I started doing music, my parents were like, 'You need to work; you can't just live off music.' I always knew that. So I worked until I knew I was going to be financially okay.

I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

You can't do business without money, of course, because that's how it works, but I'm not in business only for money.

I never wanted to take a job because I needed money, and I never have.

I feel very lucky to be able to call my hobby my job, yet it doesn't feel like one.

I go, and I do my work, and I try to do the best I can, and I collect my money, and I go home, and then I go on to the next thing. That's my attitude.

For me, this profession is about having a career where you can go on working for 60 years, so I'm not particularly bothered by things to do with fame; I like to think that I just do what I do.

I didn't become an actor for the money, so I can't stay with a job for that reason. I did too many years of theater where you just get by from month to month, happily, to make that a priority.