In the BUBBLE decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a CALLING AMONG students at elite universities like Harvard, siphoning off gifted undergraduates who might OTHERWISE have been scientists, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, ARTISTS or inventors.

You have to figure out some way of MAKING MONEY without relying on video ads or PEOPLE paying to DOWNLOAD.

I also learned that I love making money. ANYONE who is not AFRAID of WORK will be happy with the money they MAKE.

Why do you JUDGE me as a musician, JOHN? All I'm INTERESTED in is making money.

The GREATEST pleasure when I STARTED making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself ABLE to have as MANY freshly typed drafts as POSSIBLE.

I THINK pride is more IMPORTANT SOMETIMES than making MONEY.

As an actor, you're not a person; you're a product, a commodity. It's about money. Your job is about MAKING money for other PEOPLE. At some POINT, you learn how to be on the other SIDE of that table. You WRITE, direct, produce, and create opportunity for yourself. Then you start to make money for yourself.

I had a very ACTIVE IMAGINATION as a kid, and I was CONSTANTLY performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in FRONT of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.

At 19, I was in the STREETS MAKING MONEY. I was SURVIVING.

I THINK I get way too much CREDIT for making what people consider to be smart CHOICES, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money. I had done NETWORK sitcoms. I had a nest egg.

Within the cult of WALL STREET that forged Mitt Romney, making money JUSTIFIES any BEHAVIOR, no matter how venal.

I'm not into FAME. I'm not into MAKING MONEY, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My THING is BASICALLY about time - not wasting it.

We are now after 7 MONTHS OPERATION MAKING MONEY here.

It can be a machine. The machine TRIES to make money and forget about the heart and the ART. HOLLYWOOD is more about MAKING money.

I'm FREE of stress and WORRIES now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the PEOPLE I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so POOR, ya KNOW?