Sean McVay Quotes

Certainly after '21' I was getting the opportunity to make a lot of money.

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

I'm not in this for the money because if I was, I would have jumped out after our first album.

You make money at anything you're good at. If you're a good doctor, you make money.

I feel privileged to be able to do what I enjoy doing and that I also get paid to do it. That gives me great pleasure.

So now, cut to ten years later, and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible.

The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga.

Even if you're lucky to have a play on Broadway like 'Chinglish,' you don't necessarily earn enough off it to support the years it takes to get there.

Believe me, when people say, 'We want to pay you X-million to do this movie,' I won't be the girl who hangs back saying, 'Oh, I really don't deserve it,' I'll be, 'Un-hunh, hand it right over.'

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that.

I believe a lot of players that start to think about money - 'Oh my goodness; I'm up for a new contract' - they don't have a great season because they're thinking about all these different things. Do your business on the field, and everything takes care of itself.

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.

Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.

Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

The sidekick business has been good to me.

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

For God's sake, man, when you leave State, you'll be overwhelmed with offers. You'll be rich.

I value a buck, and when they're giving you $300,000 to lay down and look cute and pretty for a commercial in Korea, you gotta just go, 'Holy crap, this is unbelievable.'

The business has been good to me.

As long as I'm taking care of my family and breaking records and continuing to excel and continuing to find new endorsements - everything's working.