- Community College
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money Quotes
On earning, spending and money's honest reality.
These quotes take a candid look at money: the shifting economics behind building a winning team, the blunt math of a manager's career, and the mixed blessing of money attracting the wrong kind of attention. For more, see our Status quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad even likes to give me career advice. I'll let him know about some offers about films and TV shows that I get, and he'll ask me questions like, 'What's the money like?' and 'Who got this for you - was it your agent or manager, and what are they getting out of this?'
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
- Critically
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those movies, I thought, 'I wouldn't watch my own movies when I was 16, and my buddies where I came from wouldn't watch my movies, because they were boring.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at the Berlin Film Festival. A lot of American studios, agents, and people like that saw it there and liked it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first got to WWE, the head of talent relations was John Laurinaitis, who is now my father-in-law, and the first thing I thought when I saw everything that he had to do is, I thought, 'I would never, in a million years, ever want that job. You could not pay me enough money to have that job.'
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’m transitioning from being a starving artist. My producers had success outside of the Daniel Caesar brand, so they invested money, time and resources. They funded the first video, and a lot of other things that I’m so thankful for.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a bellman - a great hotel, five-star hotel in Boston. I made great money. I made cash every day. I had good benefits. We had 401k. All the things you could ask for in a great job, I had. You know what I didn't have? I hated my job.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money's a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn't have - nice things - but happiness? That's a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.
- Nov 07, 2020
For me, 'rich' isn't having lots of money; rich is having loads of things in your head.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020