Ezra Furman Quotes

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

Even if you're lucky to have a play on Broadway like 'Chinglish,' you don't necessarily earn enough off it to support the years it takes to get there.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

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.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.

Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.

My parents probably were delighted when I chose acting, because if there is one job in the world that is less financially reliable than acting, it is art.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.

I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.

It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.

All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish.

I was on the dole once. I loved it. It was only for a couple of years, when I was 20 or 21 and playing in a band. Back then, this was something young folk did - you got your rent paid, a little bit of money to live on, and you loafed around, wrote songs, rehearsed and dreamed of playing Wembley Stadium.

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do.

This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money.

My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.

You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.

What costs the world to you as a working kid fresh out of college costs nothing to you as a successful musician.

I like to work. I mean, part of it for me is that I was a struggling actor, could barely pay my rent, until I was almost 40.

I was the only one to go to university, and the last thing my dad wanted was for me to be an artist. But later on, when I bought him a house in the south of Spain, he thought it was all right then.