Chris Kyle Quotes

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

I just want choices. It's not about making money and having a lot of friends in Hollywood; that's the last thing I want.

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.

I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.

I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.

I'm single. I don't have a family. I certainly don't have to work. I don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery.

That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?

I don't want to be any more interesting than I am. I love the life that I get to live, which is one of real independence and privacy and autonomy.

I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

Money isn't automatically freedom. You need to look carefully at what you're doing to earn the money before you can conclude that you are, in practice, free. This is a cost-benefit analysis we should all perform on our own lives.

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.

Money equals freedom.

I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?

I'm happy without money.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.