“Let me tell you something. You can continue to live in your little fantasy world with your baseball cards and the autographed bullshit or whatever the fuck is it you do, but me, I got to eat and pay the rent. Phone sex is acting, and if you don't like it, you can step.”

Theresa Randle - Girl 6

“- George Fields: I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.
- Michael Dorsey: You make it out like I'm some flake, George. I am in this business to make money, too.”

Sydney Pollack - George Fields
Dustin Hoffman - Michael Dorsey

“Years ago, I saved up a million bucks from acting — a lot of money back then — and I spent it all on a ranch outside Tucson. Now when I go down there, I look at the place and I realize my whole acting career adds up to a million bucks' worth of horse shit.”
Robert Mitchum

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

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