Rowan Atkinson Quotes

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.

I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money, 'cause they're convinced that there is a free lunch.

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it's mostly about bottom line and making money.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.

It can be a machine. The machine tries to make money and forget about the heart and the art. Hollywood is more about making money.

In hip-hop, as in neoliberalism, economics bullied politics out of the picture.

Hindi cinema has only one religion, and that's money.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

This is the western world; if somebody can make a buck, they're going to try to do it.

Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: cheap to make, it does ideological work even when it is not giving guru status to dull business people. It fits in with capitalism's anti-mythic myth: the idea that we have liberated ourselves from the dangerous illusions allegedly propagated by art and politics.

I really don't believe in the word 'selling out.'

I am uneasy about having scientific exploration depend on profit-making companies.

I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.

Advertising, the product of capitalism, can only justify itself on the premise that the market is a force for good.

I don't think capitalism can survive.