Sidharth Malhotra Quotes

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

I won't make a movie for money ever again.

If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything.

I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.

I have worried about getting pigeon-holed, but now I think I've done enough weird, offbeat stuff not to be. And I also know that I do things for the right reasons: I've made my money, so I don't have to say yes to anything.

I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.

Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.

Money has never been a motivation.

Earlier in my career, there may have been compulsions for accepting films for 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?

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'

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.

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

If someone paid me a million dollars to drink a glass of milk, I wouldn't do it; maybe that's because I don't need the money.

I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

I've gotten out of bed a lot of days for a lot less than $10,000.

A lot of times, when artists are rushing to put out projects, it's on some financial tip because they want to make money. But for me, I'm not in any rush.

I was never motivated by money.

I don't want to do every independent film offered to me.