David Talbot Quotes

If I wasn't touring, I wasn't making money. When I got the MacArthur, I could get off that hamster wheel. It meant I didn't have to do anything.

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.

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 mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.

Money is the most important thing because there might be a time when you have no label behind you and you have to carry yourself. Money is the only thing that can shield you.

I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.

To get the Red Bull junior drive was like a massive pressure off... I didn't have to go around asking Mum and Dad to sell their house or ask friends for funding. The instant feeling was, 'Oh wow, amazing.'

I'm just doing all type of music that I like. I'm not so worried about the money like I used to be. I got money now. I don't have to worry about that.

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my parents a house. My husband and I have a property in Portugal and one in Mumbles, Wales, and my family are always coming out to visit us. It has been fantastic to have such a successful career and to have been able to help everyone.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

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

Boy, we'll get Raymond out and we won't go hungry anymore.

No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

I never wanted to rely on my family for money.

I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.

I would never judge anyone for going anywhere for money.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.