Esther Rolle Quotes

I don't make decisions based on money.

I only have one rule: I don't do anything for money; that's my rule.

Money ain't everything.

It's not always about the money.

I'm not driven by the mighty dollar.

I like money, but it's never been about the money.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.

Personally, I've never done things just for money.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.

Not everything is about money.

It's not about the money for me.

The money is important in life, but the money is not everything. I don't want to sell myself for money. I don't want to sell my reputation for money.

Money is important, but it's not everything.

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

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've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.