Greedy Quotes

Misdeeds of a few players and certain people cannot and should not bring bad name to hundreds of players who participated in the I.P.L. with full honesty. The reputation of the I.P.L. cannot be tarnished by a few greedy individuals.

I am an extremely greedy actor. I want to do all sorts of roles.

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It’s the new badge of authenticity.

I was greedy and ate in that unselfconscious way teenagers do, constantly grazing and eating when I wasn’t hungry.

I am a greedy actor: I want all the scripts to come to me. So I do all the good films which come my way, even if it means I’ll rest a little less.

I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people’s government its essential vitality.

As a Manhattan resident, I’m gutted by what certain landlords are doing, pushing folks who have lived in their apartments for decades out of their homes, as a greedy tactic to get more rent from newer tenants. It’s one of the most disgusting, inhumane things I’ve ever witnessed in my beautiful city.

If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don’t really want to have an exception to that model. It’s much easier to say, ‘Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.’

Global warming is a fact. Now it’s up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step.

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I’m not greedy for that stuff.

The abortionist I worked for, he’s a very greedy man, a selfish man.

I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.

I’m so greedy, I’m hungry, I’m young.

Americans, apparently, either do nothing about the world’s problems, in which case they are ignorant and isolationist, selfish and gutless, or they try to do something about the world’s problems, in which case they are arrogant and naive, greedy and bullying.

I am a greedy actor, and it upsets me losing work I have wanted to do, but that is a motivator not a dampener.

Neighbors are competitors instead of partners, suspicious instead of trustful, indifferent instead of helpful, cold instead of loving, greedy instead of generous. We no longer consider ourselves living in neighborhoods, but only as living next to ‘hoods.’

Bloggers are lazy and greedy.

In tennis it’s easy to get greedy – and one Grand Slam doesn’t feel enough any more.

As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.

Despite all the Internet has done to make prices transparent and bibliographic information universal, you can still find – at book sales and thrift shops, auctions and even fancy dealers – unrecognized or underpriced rarities. Getting something valuable for cheap is the basic, greedy thrill of book collecting.

As an actor, I am greedy.

When I was at Watford I was very greedy. I just wanted to show off my skills.

Sivaji’ was a fantastic movie. It is one movie I am going to take back to my grave and like a greedy actor, I want more such movies in my career.

I’ve always been greedy. I think every actor is greedy for good parts and stories, and it should be that way.

One of my frustrations is that we in society generally have this bifurcation in how we see the world. That’s probably a little less true with business audiences, but in general, there tends to be this view that for-profit companies are greedy, and nonprofits are noble. It’s absolutely more complicated than that.

It seems very clear to me that we, in the West, cannot afford to continue assuming propriety over the world’s resources in a careless, greedy way without paying for it – not only with the lives of our loved ones, but also with our souls.

I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

No actor wants to choose – they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.

Film-makers are greedy people – we want good stories and good subjects.

I’m writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I’m very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

I’m greedy for experience. I keep finding new things.

The story of Warner Brothers‘ movie, ‘Mildred Pierce,’ recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

I’m greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I’m happy to be busy.

The majority of comic book villains are pure evil, but Curt Connors is an exception. Curt Connors is a good man who initially wants to save the world, but he gets hungry and greedy and reckless, and he pays the price for that.

This is a cutthroat business full of greedy individuals who take advantage of naive young artists.

A good host will point out food, snacks, and drinks that you’re welcome to help yourself to, but if they don’t, do not ask what is available. It sounds greedy.

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

We need to support the media by subscribing to newspapers and magazines and supporting their advertisers to stay in business. And we need to be less greedy and allow journalists to take the time to pull the story together.

Don’t let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you’re crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you’re lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you’re greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn’t understand.

I’m very happy doing what I’m doing; I don’t think I’m prepared to devote my time to politics. When I am, I’d like to give it 100%. I’m not in the frame of mind, and I’m too greedy an actor to do that.