Janis Ian Quotes

Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn't this be comparable? Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later, and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.

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

In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

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

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the 'best' in your chosen field, whatever it is.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.

If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.

I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.

I believe a lot of players that start to think about money - 'Oh my goodness; I'm up for a new contract' - they don't have a great season because they're thinking about all these different things. Do your business on the field, and everything takes care of itself.

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.

You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

I know the money is important, but, actually, the validation of your career that prizes give is what you really want. But the money is fabulous, too.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Most everything I do on a creative level is beyond the fame and money. I sort of work as an actor... and take care of my family and mouths to feed and all of that. I don't really care about fame, but our business means money sometimes and financial success, which I can pass on to my family.

I've made my stamp on the earth. My name will go down in history, and if I never want to work again, I don't have to.