[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.
A lot of the times, I end up having to do jobs to sort of pay the bills.
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
I wasn't born into money and there have been jobs in the past that I've not wanted to take on, but I've had to because of the money.
I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money.
During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, 'Hang on a minute - I can paint.' I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.
To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
I don't want to be the kind of wrestler that has to do it because he needs the money.
There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to do these things, they have to fund them. They have to have something to pay the rent.
Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin' but quit playin' so hard.
I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.
I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.'
I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
The media tries to do what they do. You can't stop. You gotta get money.
Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.
No, I don't want to go back and wrestle again... But some big bubble could break, and I might need money like everybody else.
Some of the things I've done in my life, I've done to make money because I had to make money... and some things I did just because they were on my mind and they were of interest to me... some of the little plays I wrote.
