If you put down a list of jobs doctor lawyer janitor teacher or movie star everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life so I wasn't counting on money to much.

Whether rich people make money or lose money they get no sympathy from the public.

It's nice being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success so that makes it a bunch easier.

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.

Like everybody I have invested in things that have gone bad because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man a great role model.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.