Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.
I think if you're going to a concert and spending $15 for a ticket for you and your girlfriend, then you're going to buy a T-shirt, and you end up spending close to $100 a night, what with gas in the car and anything else to get you in the spirit of things, I just think that people deserve their money's worth.
The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.
I couldn't afford [buying Marvel]. I hope I have enough money for dinner tonight!
Americans spend more money on music than on sex or prescription drugs
I would be the last person to argue that people do not have the right, if they want to commit to spend part of their rent, for either alcohol or tobacco or entertainment, or anything else.
precursor of the New Democratic Party.
People shouldn't go broke making a haunted house. Or, we should pay for our enjoyment, definitely.
There is never enough money for TV.
When I'm abroad, I burn all my money on Broadway.
You can cut the fat from your spending: Stop taking taxis, call your cable company and ask for the same deal new subscribers get, have dinner at home and then a drink out instead of a $100 meal with wine.
And yes, it is harder to make movies because budgets are getting smaller, and the companies stocks are down. The only good news on the horizon is that box office has been up by something like 23% from last year, which is great for us. It's still the cheapest form of entertainment.
People don't realize how much money you have to spend: styling, publicity, a manager, and your agent. That's a chunk of change.
May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense.
I go to movies and concerts and stuff - that's why I think all my money would be gone if I weren't working because I just keep spending it, on that, and CDs, and I don't know.
I used to spend my money on going to Tom Petty concerts.
The bagel budget for 'Sex and the City 2' could pay for 'Ghosted.'
We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.
To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money.
I basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I'm pretty good at it.
