Orson Welles Quotes

Every creativity has a motive. Either one does it for money, for fame, or for passion. My energies go out for passion.

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

I'm still doing what I've always wanted to do, and how big it gets or how much money I make for it or how popular I am in the public's eye is really not that important, even though it's hard to let that go.

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.

I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

It's about legacy, it's about moments, it's about being an icon - I'll do what I do and the money will flow.

I don't actually think about going down in history.

I have nothing to prove to anyone. I only play for myself.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

I hate to think of the day when nobody remembers me as an actor and I can't get good tables in restaurants.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

I do not care for the money, just for the glory.

I have never been motivated by money.

I want to go down in history.

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.