Vin Diesel Quotes

Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.

Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down.

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

Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.

I turned down a lot of money by not going to Chelsea, but that's not what I'm interested in.

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office.

There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same place. If given the choice between making a lot of money or finding a way to make people live longer, what do you choose?

It's a great story for us whenever an entrepreneur makes a crazy amount of money and we get to tell the world about it. For the entrepreneur? Not so much. Hitherto unknown relatives, entrepreneurs seeking angel investments, money managers and supposed baby-mamas all come out of the woodwork with dollar signs in their eyes.

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

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

I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.

I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

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

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

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway.

I'd never bought the idea that you don't lose money by underestimating the intelligence of the audience. Although perhaps I should add that I've never really made that much money.

I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.