J. J. Cale Quotes

When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.

Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

I never thought I'd make any money at all doing this business. Film was never even on the cards.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.

You can have a big hit and not get rich.

If someone told me, 'I'm gonna give you $600 million, but I'm going to take your hair'? Take my hair!

Working in a hugely, commercially successful film benefits everyone.

When you walk out, the money walks in

There's no art where there's no fee.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have always felt that denies in the economic world a very large part of the motivation.

Money is merely a reward for solving problems.

Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.

Money is the reward for risks taken, value delivered and promises kept.

I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up at Yale, and I was happy because it came with money.

On Friday night, it was fun [to know] that if you bombed, or whatever was going on, that you'd be on TV at 11. It was a cool feeling, and you'd get a couple hundred dollars.

I just want to get the most money I can.

I appreciate your applause, but I don't do it for applause. I do it for cash, it's much better.

A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding.

Profits are better than wages.

I'm shocked that I can live pretty well, or reasonably, or make a certain amount of my living, anyway, off of prints. I guess it's nuts. I don't believe in it. I never anticipated it; I still don't believe it.

I don't like reality television, but it pays so much money.

Either I'll never get rich from the show but remain intensely proud of the work and stand behind every second of it, or it catches on and I'll make my money down the road.