Bono Quotes

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

I enjoyed the Hee Haw people, but from 1980 on I didn't enjoy it and thought about leavin', and thought, hell, it's an easy job and pays wonderful. I kinda just prostituted myself for their money.

From the moment I went to Hollywood for the first time, I was accused by various people of selling out. So I feel I've done my sell-out films already. I've sold everything! I've sold every piece of soul I ever had!

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

I don't like to use my last name. I don't like it attached to things because people think you can just stamp your name on something, and it's not organic or that you're just doing it for money.

Writers are always selling somebody out.

Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.

I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.

I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

I can not enter the ring on the money basis. First, because, in the main, it is wrong and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money.

I love Michael Bay movies. I don't think I'd be selling out if I did one. I happen to like his movies. I think selling out is doing something you don't believe in, and you're doing it for a selfish purpose.

I've had too many opportunities to sell out.

My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.

I really don't believe in the word 'selling out.'

No one can establish what selling out is.

Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.