Peter Falk Quotes

In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

Of course, I do everything for money.

The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

I could probably make more money if I did more commercial projects.

I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.

I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.

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

I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

Money. All these guys care about is money. They want money. How much money have we given them?

There's a couple of times that I did it for the... paycheck. Even when I was younger - I remember I did this movie that wasn't good, called '1969.' I totally did it 'cause I could get out of school.

A lot of us players, if you were to ask them, feel like they have to play overseas. Why? 'Why not? Might as well do it while I can.' For a while, I felt that way - I've got to make the most money that I can. Now, do I feel like I could still play overseas? Absolutely. But I don't feel that pressure anymore.

I would never refuse a film or do a film for a certain amount of money.

I've been offered a few professional contracts... in the hundreds and thousands.

I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring.

The passion for money is never fickle.

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.