Ed Begley Jr. Quotes

How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?

It is true that rich people can spend more money than middle class people, but there's this upper limit on what we can spend. I drive a very nice car, but it's only one car. I don't own a thousand, even though I earn a thousand times the median wage. I have a few jackets, not a few thousand.

I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.

I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'

I make more money in a week than my father made in a year.

My life is one that I've aimed for - I've always wanted to be an actor who worked in film and television and was able to provide for himself and his family.

Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.

I didn't think acting would be a lucrative career.

To be frank, my career as an actor was not even taking care of my lifestyle. Doing two odd films a year wasn't making me financially secure.

I have to keep working because, although I have land, I'm not cash rich and don't have the wealth of high-profile actresses - don't say I'm an 'actor.' That's a bit too modern.

Listen, when you're starting out you're trying to be as creative as possible about how you can use your skills as an actor to make money.

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

Money dictates nearly step of social mobility from the very first moments of life. How much our parents make often determines whether we go to college. It affects the jobs we get offered and the ones we can afford to take.

I'll just put it this way: I've struggled enough as a working actor - and, most of the times, a not working actor - to know that anytime you are working is a blessing.

I always call myself the luckiest actor in the world because I made a living solely as a performer from the time I left home at 17 years old.

Money is not the ultimate point, but it remains the actual measure of success.

I don't think of anyone as rich or poor.

I make $7 million per year. I'm not going to be mad at a guy making $10 million. We're still millionaires.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I'm still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

I had a lot of money for a 20-year-old.

I'm grateful to be successful, and I'm grateful that we can make a living, and I hope we can maintain our integrity forever. That's really my only dream. The notion of bigness or smallness, I feel like that comes and goes in such waves that are kind of out of my control.

I was lucky in that I didn't have to do too many outside-of-acting side jobs.

If I was in some Marvel movie and made all that Marvel money, you wouldn't see me ever again.