"Lately I’ve been having conversations with a few colleagues about being in our forties and still not making any money. We commiserate and bitch and confess to secret insecurities and shameful jealousies, and give each other halfhearted pep talks. Of course, money is not the reason anyone goes into the arts. But money's not only a useful thing to have lying around in case of hunger; it’s the token by which society recognizes the worth of what we do. And after twenty years of not making any money it’s hard to escape the impression that what you do is worth nothing in the eyes of the world. More and more lately I am troubled by the possibility that what I’ve done with my life has been stupid. As my colleague Megan put it -- speaking not only of the arts, I think, but of life in general -- 'It’s a slog, a goddamn slog.'"
- Tim Kreider

"That watch costs more than your car. I made $970,000 last year. How much'd you make? You see pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing. Nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? Fuck you! Go home and play with your kids. You wanna work here - close! You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you cocksucker? You can't take this, how can you take the abuse you get on a sit? You don't like it, leave. I can go out there tonight with the materials you've got and make myself $15,000. Tonight! In two hours! Can you? Can YOU?"
- Blake

"No. You're doing it for what the money says and it says... well it says... that any player that makes big money, that they're worth it."
- Peter Brand

(I tried. I really tried to find the clip from Moneyball for that last quote, but I've been searching for over an hour and I just can't find it. I can find the scene before it, and the scene after it, but the only place I can find the clip with the quote is in an extremely shitty full-movie encoding. I can't subject you to that [yes, it's that bad]. If you can find a copy of it, it's around the 2h30m mark.)