Tom Cruise Quotes

I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

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

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

I'm not in this for the money because if I was, I would have jumped out after our first album.

The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga.

If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'

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

The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin.

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

I would never judge anyone for going anywhere for money.

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.

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.

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

My choice of films has never been governed by money. That is perhaps why I don't have a very fancy bank account. I'd rather get respect and creative satisfaction through my work than just earn money.

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

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.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.

As a fighter, I recognise that the one thing we fight for is prizes. The one thing that motivates us is money. A lot of fighters do come back because of money. The biggest spur they have is financial, and thank God my finances were secure, and I didn't need to come back for that reason.

Fortunately and unfortunately, what I love entails, and makes, a lot of money.

When I was still doing indie, it was just purely art. I don't think about how much I will get paid or how much the movie will earn.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I make movies for money, exclusively for money.

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