Katharine Hepburn Quotes

Creative satisfaction is highly underrated. When you don't have it, the money doesn't spend nearly as well.

I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.

As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.

Money has never been a motivation.

I grew up thinking that corporate America was my destination. Then I got there, and I was making the money I wanted to make, but I just wasn't happy.

I've never disguised the fact that I wasn't happy in teaching. But the reason was that I wanted to do comedy. I would have been a very unhappy security guard or a very unhappy greengrocer.

I left WWE because I was utterly miserable wrestling at the time and I needed to get away from the business.

There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.

No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.

I don't play for money. I'm not sure I even can play just for money. Money is great; I can't lie about that.

I feel like a lot of people have a hard time finding what they do, or they have a job or career and not a passion. That's miserable for me. Just find your purpose; understand that you have one life to live.

The money thing, that's money, I don't play this for money, I play for the love of the game.

The worst career advice is to just do something because it's paying, and there are a lot people out there that will push you to take a job because of money. I am not motivated by money, and I have found a lot of disappointment when I've had to do something because I needed to support myself in that way.

No matter what happens to our game, money won't be a motivation for me.

I want to feel happy doing a good film and don't want to look at cinema with a materialistic yardstick.

I've never done anything for money, and that is why I got money. When you do stuff for money, you never get money.

The moment money becomes your motivation, you are immediately not as good as someone who is stimulated by passion and internal will.

I don't get competitive, really. So I don't know. If I'm excited about something, hopefully someone will think, "Oh right, you should do this." And that's great. I'm not being very articulate about this. I just don't want to do stuff if I'm going to feel bummed out and uninspired.

I think, life is miserable.

If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.

The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.

I’m not producing movies to make money

A lot of times, kids go to college and take a major because they do what they think they're supposed to do. I told them I believe 90 percent of America gets up in the morning and drives to a job they hate. That could have happened to me in the hotel industry.

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.