Evangeline Lilly Quotes

I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.

I have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles.

As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it.

I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

You want to strike that happy medium: the balance of being able to find creative satisfaction in your profession, be able to afford a roof over your head, but still have the freedom to live a relatively normal life.

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.

When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse that process and begin trading money for time.

I'm too old and too rich to do any more stunts.

I think every woman should have the skills and confidence to be able to earn a living. A working woman is happy because she has goals beyond herself and her needs.

I've never been afraid to work for money; it's just - it got tough there to work and to write songs at the same time.

You have a short window, you know, and if I plan on living the lifestyle I want, I've got to make a nest egg.

You see these people that work their whole life and when they stop working, they stop living. Not me.

When I graduated college, I remember all I really wanted was to make enough money to have a swimming pool, because I love to swim, to grow my own fruit. I wanted to have a little plot where I could grow my own oranges and make enough money where I could to take two weeks off a year. I figured if I had that, it was game over.

Sometimes I just think we get caught up in the entertainment aspect of this business and people kind of forget that this is the way we feed our families and this is our livelihoods.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.

The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.