William Klein Quotes

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.

If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish.

I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.

There's no amount of money that would make me decide something for a career.

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

Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.

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

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do.

I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn't have done Playboy.

I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a child when I was in high school, so I kind of had that work phase in my life.

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to grow up, have 2.2 kids, get married, the whole white picket fence thing.

Imagine you're 24 years old, earning what I earn and having all that I have. Wouldn't you be the same as me?