Money Quotes

"Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency."

"We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?'"

"I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am."

"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."

"Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I."

"Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."

"Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety."

"The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor."

"The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land."

"I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do."

"Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money."

"Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending."

"I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my work in those films. Had my performance gone unnoticed, I would've been in big trouble then."

"No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed."

"Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating."

"I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money."

"Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting."

"I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty."

"No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much."

"I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off."