Actors' quotes about money and wealth

“I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.”
Kurt Russell

“Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.”
Marlon Brando

“Money does buy happiness. And I'm healthy already.”
Mel Brooks

“I learned in school that money isn’t everything. It’s happiness that counts. So momma sent me to a different school.”
Zsa Zsa Gabor

“If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!”
William Shatner

“I am paid not to think.”
Clark Gable

“Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security.”
Steve McQueen

“Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?”
John Barrymore

“When people say they want to be rich and famous, just try rich and see if that doesn't get most of it for you.”
Bill Murray

“The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.”
Marlon Brando

“I've done the most unutterable rubbish, all because of money. I didn't need it... the lure of the zeros was simply too great.”
Richard Burton

“Money, money, money. Everyone has to have managers and accountants. The entourages now! Bogie never had anyone.”
Lauren Bacall On Humphrey Bogart

“Money doesn't make you happy. I have $50 million, but I was just as happy as when I had $48 million.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger

“There is nothing worse than being famous and broke.”
Kim Basinger

“I'll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every queen should have a palace.”
Jayne Mansfield

“Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.”
Mary Tyler Moore

“When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.”
Grant Heslov

“If I found a man who had 15 million dollars, would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.”

Bette Davis

“If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I am certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.”
Liz Taylor

“I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.”
Steve Guttenberg

“Big girls need big diamonds.”
Liz Taylor

“I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.”
Ryan Murphy

“I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.”
Richard Linklater

“I've always lived above my income. When I was earning $100 a week, I spent $200... always borrowing against my future earnings. That's why I'm not the only one who wants me to be a success.”
Laurence Harvey

“I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.”
Harry Anderson