Angelina Jolie Quotes

I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. 'The Killing' was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But I had reached a point in my life, especially with a young son, that I was no longer willing to compromise my life for the sake of a paycheque. I was no longer willing to move where the tax credits are strong.

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

I'm trying to make enough money where I can be financially independent and be able to go and just pursue that thing that everybody really needs, just pursue my family and the cause of my family.

As long as you have a job, I'm providing for my family, I'm blessed and you move forward.

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.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

Maybe it sounds like I'm splitting hairs here but I don't wanna perform for a living, I wanna live for a living.

I have the distinct pleasure of doing exactly what I want to do and get paid for it. It's a joy.

You see, we all want the same things. We want to be able to take care of our families, provide for our children, to have a roof over our heads and a good-paying job.

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

I don't have to be a 'gazillionaire;' what's important to me is to just being able to work.

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.

Sometimes I really need the money, really need to go straight to work. But if I had the absolute choice - money no object, my mortgage paid off - I'd really just work once or twice a year - but wouldn't everybody! - or at least do a different job sometimes.

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

My business doesn't keep me warm at night.

I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.

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

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 have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.

Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children.

A family needs work as well as bread.

There is the freedom from want, despair and psychological insecurity that would come from having income sufficient to provide the necessities of life. But there is also the freedom to choose not to work for a time in order to take care of family members, pursue a passion, acquire education or contribute to a worthwhile community project. There is the freedom to start a new business with an uncertain future, the freedom to say yes to a job that pays little but yields joy and satisfaction — and the freedom to say no to a job that pays too little or is demeaning and unpleasant. Why, they ask, should such freedoms be reserved only for the wealthy?

I don't have to work; I need to work.

Quite honestly, as long as I am working, can enjoy what I do, get on with it, and put bread on the table, I am really happy.