Christine McVie Quotes

The success of 'Scrubs' allowed me to pursue anything I felt passionately about without having to worry about money. It allowed me to spend my summer work shopping my show at a nonprofit theater.

My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do.

I'm just doing all type of music that I like. I'm not so worried about the money like I used to be. I got money now. I don't have to worry about that.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

I love cash.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

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.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.

It's never been about making money.

I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.

I did have an expensive divorce, but I'm now better off than I was. So I don't need to work, I just love it.

Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.

I have a teaching job that allows me to pay the rent and affords me to, frankly, write the books I want to write.

I don't play for money. I'm not sure I even can play just for money. Money is great; I can't lie about that.

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.