Lord Acton Quotes

I always feel like 'as long as I'm doin' what I love to do, the money's naturally gonna come.' When you start thinkin' business and you start thinkin' 'What's hot? What's the wave? Who is hot? Let's get at that person,' it becomes a point where you're tryin' to strategize to make money. And that's always a gamble.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do.

I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.

My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.

I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.

The success of 'Scrubs' allowed me to pursue anything I felt passionately about without having to worry about money. It allowed me to spend my summer work shopping my show at a nonprofit theater.

People who aren't artists don't think about creativity and art; they think about money.

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.

After 'Lost', I never need to take a job for the money again.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.

So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.