Stephen Dorff Quotes

Unlike the traditional athlete, I've got to do more than just engage in my sport to put food on the table. When I'm done running, it's straight to the office.

Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.

Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'

I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.

We have hardly enough money to last till the end of March.

A lot of rappers think they better than me because they saw me broke, going in and out of studios, and couldn't pay for studio time.

Along with loving the script, the reason I did 'Aeon Flux' was because I needed the job, and I couldn't find $5 million to make a movie independently - after making a fairly successful movie for a million dollars.

I did a lot of violent junk just because I needed the money - alimony movies, you might call them - and then I decided to start turning down the junk scripts and wait for something better, no matter how long.

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.

I started to earn money because we didn't have money.

I'd go back, yeah. I don't care, I got a kid, man - I'll sell tampons. I mean, there's no selling-out once you get a kid. I got a kid.

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

I never wanted to have to take a job because I didn't have any money.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind.

Not looking really to do some big giant action movie that's just trying to make a lot of money.

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.

It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?

I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most.

Some people worry because they are in debt; others, because they can't even get in.