While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.
— Russell Crowe
Money in politics is a huge issue.
— Russ Feingold
If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that's when you become the enemy.
— Rush Limbaugh
Governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to shut down police departments and teachers and all these things.
The value of money comes from the private sector in the form of price for product, services rendered, what people are willing to pay for something they want or need. That's where value happens. Government has nothing to do with that.
I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?
— Rupert Sanders
Love doesn't care how much money you have. It doesn't care who your parents are. It doesn't care if you're gay, straight, or transgender.
— Rumer Willis
I don't have all this money people think Olympic athletes have.
— Rulon Gardner
I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.
— Rufus Wainwright
I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.
— Rufus Sewell
Bonuses balance my budget in New York City. The bigger the bonuses on Wall Street, the more money I had to spend on poor people. The New York City budget is determined greatly by the bonuses given on Wall Street.
— Rudy Giuliani
They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.
— Ruben Blades
Like having your own licence to print money.
— Roy Thomson
We're in this business to make money, but then nobody wants to talk about how much money we're making. That's serious, but nobody will talk about it.
— Roy Nelson
There aren't many English managers, I suppose, who've had the sort of career that I've had, outside the country. With the amount of money that is going around in the Premier League, not many people are tempted to move abroad.
— Roy Hodgson
Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?
— Roy H. Williams
Cooking is not a craft to get into for money. The money may come, or it may not. But you must get into it for the craft and the culture.
— Roy Choi
When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.
— Russell Brand
I've lived in small rooms, flats, growing plants in pots on window sills. I'd have liked to have had a full-fledged garden with all kinds of flowers and plants. I've never had enough money to buy a big enough garden space.
— Ruskin Bond
We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.
I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't come by my audience by buying it.
Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.
Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.
— Rupert Murdoch
Among this country's enduring myths is that success is virtuous, while the wealth by which we measure success is incidental. We tell ourselves that money cannot buy happiness, but what is incontrovertible is that money buys stuff, and if stuff makes you happy, well, complete the syllogism.
— Rumaan Alam
I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.
I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
— Rudy Rucker
Keep yourself healthy. If you got your health, you can do anything. You don't need no money, you don't need nothing.
— Rudy Boesch
So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.
I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money.
It all comes down to money. If the money is right, I'll fight anybody, any time. I'll hit my grandma in the face if the price is right.
People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.
I remember telling the 'Tangled' crew about grimace moments: how when you watch a movie that you worked on and you think, 'Ah, I wish we could have done that scene better,' or, 'I wish that we'd had the time or the money to fix that particular story problem.'
— Roy Conli
My parents and friends, they're Ph.D.s that worked as custodians, that owned their own businesses, that went bankrupt, that moved seven times, that sent their kid to Harvard, that don't have any money for retirement. Highs and lows of life.
Well, my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that don't have anything to do with health care.
Health care's like any other product or service: if the consumer is in charge of spending his money on it, then the market will make sure that it is affordable.
Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.
Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.
Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money.
Some are in it for the money, which is fine. Some of them are in it to be a movie star; that's another reason. Some actors - and this I never understand - will only play likeable characters. And if they're not likeable, they change them to be heroic.
— Rupert Friend
Ultimately, I didn't look at 'The Biggest Loser' as being my defining moment. I wasn't there to compete and win the money. I wasn't there to win 'The Biggest Loser.' I was there for my health.
I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.
I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.
I never was in favor of doing this. No, no, no. I was never in favor of cursing on records and so forth. I wasn't brought up like that. But I needed to survive and make money and get me a piece of show business. So when I found I could hit with this, then I turned to it. And in order to turn to it, you must do it well.
— Rudy Ray Moore
The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
— Rudolf Bing
A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.
— Roz Savage
I've got money so I'm a Conservative.
Mayweather was TBE - The Best Ever - at making money, but look at his highlights and look at mine. You can't pretend it's the same.
— Roy Jones Jr.
No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.
I know what it's like to be a teenager in Orange County. I know what it's like to be a kid in L.A. I know what it's like to not have any money and have your lights turned off. I know what it's like to live in a house with five rooms.
