Noel Edmonds Quotes

My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.

It doesn't matter whose banner I work for. If it is good, then I do it if I want to do it.

I never chose something just for the money.

I'd love to do films, but I'd feel bad in my gut if I did anything just for the money. I want to wait for something I'm really passionate about, even if I don't work for a year.

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity.

I didn't choose this career for money. When I started training, I did it because I liked it, and I never had money for anything in my life.

We have so little control as actors, but there are ways you can maintain your integrity. I have to say I've never compromised myself in this career once. I've never done something I didn't believe in.

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.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.

You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel queasy to your stomach, the company dies.

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.

I don't work at something because I think it's important. I work at things that, to me, are interesting.

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.