Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
When I had started commuting into London for theatre school, I'd had to sell my uncle's stamp collection for £300.
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it.
When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind.
Money is really only important if you don't have any.
I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
Released in 1967, 'Farz' was the remake of a Telegu film that was turned down by most actors of the time - Manoj Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Dharmendra... I was the needy and greedy one then and signed the film gladly.
So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.
Roma must have been mad to sell Mo Salah. Either that or they really needed the money.
Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
The Lord put me on television to do these things I want to do in the community. And He knew I had a lot to learn. That's why I've been on TV 16 years - not because I'm the greatest actress, but because I need the money.
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.
I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
He that needs five thousand pound to live, Is full as poor as he that needs but five.
I don't sing. If I could sing or dance, I would have done something really gross in a G-string by now - when I wasn't working and was desperate - and ruined my career.
I took up boxing out of sheer interest and to help my parents financially.
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
I came from nothing. We didn't have money, so I started work at 14 because I really needed the money.
I was trying to get an audition for 'Walker, Texas Ranger' and they wouldn't see me. And I was crestfallen, because I really needed money. And to be told you're not good enough to be seen by 'Walker, Texas Ranger' is a tough blow.
I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
Another goal that I have is to learn how to play the ukulele - should be fun - and to stop taking my clothes off for money. But I need money. That is a ridiculous goal. I'm gonna cross that one off. That's stupid.
What happened under communism - and increasingly, is happening in America, as Joseph Sobran put it: 'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.'
My parents have a pawnshop in Downtown Las Vegas for quite awhile. I grew up seeing people come in and want - need - money so they could go and gamble again or so they could pay their bills or whatever reason, and try and sell items that were of value to them.
