Actors' quotes about money and wealth

“It's a sin to have your films not to make money.”
Ellen Burstyn

“I've been in many plays, TV shows and movies over the years but I've never made enough money, so retiring now I'm 78 is not an option.”
Julian Glover

“The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly.”
Angela Bassett

“In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.”
Gael García Bernal

“It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.”
Gael García Bernal

“Acting in a sense saved my life financially, not emotionally.”
Noel Gugliemi

“The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.”
Jon Lovitz

“Hollywood don't always pay a lot of money. Because we're English they think we're cheap!”
Ray Winstone

“You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater.”
Charles Durning

“In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.”
Mark Strong

“So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.”
David Strathairn

“I don't think of acting in terms of making a living.”
Michael Murphy

“With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.”
Adam Sandler

“I don't make my living writing; I make my living as a producer and as a director.”
Grant Heslov

“Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.”
Sam Raimi

“Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.”
Harold Ramis

“In show business, if you can make money for people they don't care what you do.”
Joel Schumacher

“I work for money. It's the American way.”
Don Siegel

“People will swim through shit if you put a few bob in it.”
Peter Sellers