Actors' quotes about money and wealth

“When I'm reading a book, I don't need a first edition to enjoy it. A dollar copy is good enough so long as the words are there.”
Marlon Brando

“Shopping is like temporary therapy for those who are rich and shallow, insecure, or clutter-happy.”
Natalie Wood

“I'm not buying a Gulfstream jet just because Arnold Schwarzenegger has one. That would be silly. I'm not that competitive or materialistic. But I bet my jet will have more special features than his.”
Tim Allen

“Tinted car windows are one of the first things a celebrity buys once they become a celebrity. They're an absolute must.”
Whoopi Goldberg

“If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.”
George Burns

“Money gets you laid.”
Jack Nicholson

“Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.”
Jean Seberg

“I have no bad feelings about actors getting $20 million a picture or more. They won't give you a dime in this town unless you can make them a dollar. No producer is going to give anybody $20 million if he doesn't think he's going to make much more.”
Rod Steiger

“I was twenty-one and Platoon had just won Best Picture and grossed $100 million. Suddenly you're not paying for meals or drinks. You don't drive any more. You get success. The more money you make, the less people want you to spend. It's very bizarre.”
Charlie Sheen

“The only reason to have money is to tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.”
Humphrey Bogart

“A man can make more money with less effort in the movies than in any other profession.”
George Sanders

“All social life is now charity fund-raisers. I get fifteen letters a day for everything from Yugoslavian dog illnesses to marathon-runners' nipple diseases.”
Anjelica Huston

“Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.”
Alan Ladd

“The most important deals in the movie industry are finalized on the sun-drenched turf of golf courses or around turquoise swimming pools, where the smell of barbecue sauce is borne on gentle breezes and wafts over the stereo system of houses that people seldom leave.”
Shirley MacLaine

“I told Clooney, George, you’re worth $100 million — of course you can afford to be a socialist!”
Kevin Sorbo On George Clooney

“I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.”
Hattie McDaniel

“Money to me is just the biggest blessing in the world that allows me freedom.”
Linda Evans

“The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.”
Norma Shearer

“Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life - an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars.”
Mary Tyler Moore

“George Burns, what a man. He read in the paper that it takes ten dollars a year to support a kid in India. So he sent his kids there.”
Red Buttons On George Burns

“I never write for money. I only act for money.”
Robert Shaw

“A lot of time it is hard to break into the commercial world and that has only to do with money and that has nothing to do with being female or male.”
Anne Fletcher

“I don't buy diamonds.”
Frank Oz

“I just want to be rich and famous.”
Ian Hart

“Money is a way of creating scarcity.”
Peter Coyote