Terrence Howard Quotes

If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.

I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family.

No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.

I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through.

I never wanted to rely on my family for money.

To me, money is independence. It gives you freedom to do what you really want to do. It allows you to not be dependent on anyone or anything, and so you can be yourself and follow your passion.

Money grants you freedom, I guess.

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

I make money, money doesn't make me.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

I'm in a rare position where I don't have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.

That's what I do this for, to secure my family's future. I don't care about anything else. I'm able to spoil people, and that's the best thing.

Money equals freedom.

I never set money as a goal. It was a result.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.

I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.

I'm not led by money, because if that's the case, I can throw my name on everything and have a million-dollar company.

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.