One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

It’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn’t have to write for my living.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

I like to have guns around. I don’t like to carry them.

You don’t send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like ‚shooting an unarmed child,‘ when that ‚child‘ was beating him bloody.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

The goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn’t to take someone down to the ground – the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and get away from an attacker. That’s what the goal is.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I’m not a magician.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

It was the money from ‚Star Wars‘ and ‚Jaws‘ that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.