Tino Sehgal Quotes

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

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

I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value.

I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.

You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.

The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction.

I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.

When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.

You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

I care about my quality of life and money.

I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

Personally, I've never done things just for money.

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.