Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.
— Vic Morrow
I wasn't happy the way I completed 'Asuran' or abandoned the film as it isn't complete. People are liking it and it's making money and I'm glad but I'm not happy with how I had to finish it.
— Vetrimaaran
You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
— Vera Farmiga
Money, titles, belts - you're not going to take with you when you die. History stays forever. That's why I decided to go for history.
— Vasyl Lomachenko
Nobody is ready to burn money just because you have a filmi lineage.
— Varun Dhawan
Every creativity has a motive. Either one does it for money, for fame, or for passion. My energies go out for passion.
My record company certainly wants me to play live, badly, but I have no such plans. My only motivation to do such a thing would be money, and I don't think that's a good reason to play live.
— Varg Vikernes
Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
— Vanity
I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible. The more successful you become, the more you become a product of something that generates money. Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.
— Vangelis
I don't really shop a lot, just cause I'd rather not spend my money on clothes.
— Vanessa Williams
I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with my instruments. Whenever I had 20 minutes, I would practice a new chord or write a new verse.
— Valerie June
We had a couple of films that, in the course of working on them, the budget shrank to the point where we couldn't make it. They literally ran the numbers: They took our numbers and the stars' numbers, and when they calculated whether we could make our money back or not, it said no.
— Valerie Faris
Martial arts, for me, is not just some kind of job to gain some money or whatever. No, martial arts, for me, is my lifestyle, my religion, my philosophy... Martial arts are everything for me.
— Valentina Shevchenko
With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
— Val Kilmer
Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
— Uwe Boll
People were holding high denomination notes to keep tax unaccounted for money. Some sectors like real estate were using cash to avoid tax.
— Urjit Patel
I'm not motivated by money or fame. I'm more driven by the electricity of creativity. The idea of being one of the legends that inspired me, being like Tupac.
— Vic Mensa
I started Verite on savings from three years working at Applebee's in Times Square. I was a ridiculously good waitress. I was making more money than my brother, who worked at a start-up.
— Verite
We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.
— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Nowadays, it's not more about the sport; it's about the business. All the boxers became businessmen, not boxers. They look just to get the money, not the glory.
I am choosing films only to entertain people, but at the same time, if someone is putting their money into my films, I want that person to make money.
I'm not invincible. I am not picture-perfect. The reason I am here is not because of the money; if I get to entertain people and put a smile on their face, I feel content.
You should never trust anything reported by the media. Their first priority is to spread propaganda; their second priority is to make money. They never really care if they tell the truth or not.
I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.
— Vanilla Ice
I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music.
My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
— Vanessa Marcil
The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
— Valerie Jarrett
It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
— Valeria Mazza
One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
— Val McDermid
Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
— Val Guest
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
— Utah Phillips
I've told the UFC brass I want big fights: fights that are going to put money in their pockets and money in my pockets and staple me as one of the best of all-time.
— Urijah Faber
I'd been doing my own thing, and making my own money; I wasn't built by a record label or the music industry, nor was I built by prominent artists that have given me co-signs.
Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.
Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.
— Veerappa Moily
I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
— Vash Young
If you are a great guy off screen but you are a bad actor and are dishonest to your work, then I would not spend my money on you.
My brother starting earning early in life. I stopped taking money from my parents, and my brother would give me the pocket money.
I never do anything to make money. I do make money, but that's because I do something. Big difference.
It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
If I've made money from music, it was never my aim to do that. I didn't do it to become famous.
I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh
I don't see anything degrading about marriage or homemaking, but my husband and I pool the money we earn, along with the jobs around the house.
— Valerie Harper
I already knew that this is what I'm gonna do during my life because martial arts, for me, it's not just my job. It's not just the way to get some money. Of course it's important.
We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
Ideally, I want my films to work because I want the people who have invested their money to get back their investment and make profits too.
— Vaani Kapoor
We don't celebrate birthdays in our family; the money was always given towards social causes.
— Urmila Matondkar
