Omari Hardwick Quotes

The box office isn't something I consider. If I do, I can't really work.

I've never been driven by box office.

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

Everyone has different goals. For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that are going to challenge me, and that I'm going to be growing from. I don't ever want to take a movie just for the sake of working.

I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.

I like money, but it's never been about the money.

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.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

I like to do films that I would want to go see, basically. I'm not out to make a fast buck.

The idea is to choose good roles and good movies. I don't want to act simply to remain in the industry, nor am I here to do glamour roles.

If you're making music strictly to make money, you might as well find another job.

I don't care about how many records I sell, but the main thing is people like it.

When I met Ram Charan, he told me not to worry about how much my films make. After 'Magadheera,' people began expecting big things from him. So he did films to keep up to that expectation. He advised me to not fall into that trap.

I don't talk to nobody. You know why? 'Cause if you ain't talkin' money, what the hell you talkin' bout?

Too many times I see kids come up to me, especially at the high school age, and say, 'Man, it would be cool to play in the NFL just because of the money.' And I'm like, 'Oh my goodness, you are missing everything, because money is not going to make you happy.'

I like making money, but it's a scorecard. I'm not driven by that.

There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money, it doesn't make it good. If it's good, it's good.

We think, "If I have more money, I am more valuable. If I make more money, I am more valuable." It's all sort of wound up with this problem that humans have with their failure.

I would rather just be successful and have money than be famous.

I don't really think about the box office, but I want my films to do well.