Terry Zwigoff Quotes

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

Financially I'm comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.

Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make some money and pay the bills.

I'm in this to change my life, to change my fortunes. I'm not in there to just fight for free.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself.

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.

I have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles.

I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, 'Would you like soup with that?'

I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.

I don't live to work; I work to live.

I don't have to be a 'gazillionaire;' what's important to me is to just being able to work.

Sometimes I really need the money, really need to go straight to work. But if I had the absolute choice - money no object, my mortgage paid off - I'd really just work once or twice a year - but wouldn't everybody! - or at least do a different job sometimes.

I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

My business doesn't keep me warm at night.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.

When I sold my first company at 30, I could have done whatever I wanted to do.

I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

I really felt that 'Three's Company' was a gift. When it ended, I had money in the bank and had the luxury to pursue a life that meant something, to learn and discover.