My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.
I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.
After 'Psychonauts,' we could have laid off half our team so that we'd have more money and time to sign 'Brutal Legend.' But doing so would have meant breaking up a team that had just learned how to work well together. And what message would that have sent to our employees? It would say that we're not loyal to them, and that we don't care.
For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.
That's why actors are so great and why they earn so much money. They take away the anxious necessity to find the right words.
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
The funny thing is more money doesn't necessarily get you what you think it's going to get you and the way where it does get you more value on screen.
If companies are able to have multiple revenue streams and have their hands in multiple pools of money, then why shouldn't the people who actually work for those brands be able to do the exact same thing?
There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.
My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.
I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.
Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.
Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.
Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.
I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.
I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive; gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.
We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds.
You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
I want my money to be different. I'm not trying to have rapper money. My goal is to be able to get everything from the world that I can get.
Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.
I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.
I am not the sort of person who divests myself of everything that came before I came to Australia. I want to take all the knowledge and experiences I gained when I was in England and put it at the service of Australia because I have to bring something to Australia - not just money but myself.
I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money.
If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
Every penny we spend comes from the taxpayer. We thus owe it to the taxpayer to work as hard managing that money wisely as the taxpayer must do to earn it in the first place.
'Cause I can make more money going in and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co. and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it.
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.
If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.
We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.
I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.
