Top 125 Penny Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Penny Quotes from famous people such as David Hallberg, Jack Nicholson, Michael Wolff, Camille Claudel, Kidada Jones, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except

No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn’t have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.
David Hallberg
I’ve been too many places. I’m like the bad penny.
Jack Nicholson
One of the anomalies of digital journalism is a lack of clarity between high and low. That’s the historic distinction in publishing, mass from class, the vulgar from the refined, tabloid from broadsheet, the penny press from papers costing a nickel.
Michael Wolff
I am scared; I don’t know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.
Camille Claudel
I had a dog for 20 years and her name was ‘Penny,’ so I have a penny necklace.
Kidada Jones
If you put nothing away for retirement, I can tell you, to the last penny, how much you will have when you retire: nothing.
John C. Bogle
I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money.
David Boies
I’m careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don’t have any money offshore.
Jerry Della Femina
The president’s budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.
Mary Landrieu
I like Penny. She’s cool. Yeah, she dates some idiots, but, although, so have I. So yeah, I would be friends with her. We’d have a lot to talk about.
Kaley Cuoco
When we do deals, it’s not, ‘Ah, it’s a million bucks, who cares?’ The penny means something.
Donald Trump, Jr.
Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.
Bobby Scott
It’s not just the kid who’s spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it’s also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it’s more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.
Richard Hammond
‘Penny Dreadful’ is so realistic. The tonality is so earthy and so real that I actually believe it is in the realm of possibility for all these extra species to exist among us.
Tituss Burgess
I believe I never finished playing Sherry Palmer, that’s why when the thought they shot and killed me, Penny’s butt kept breathing on the floor, because I believe that she never died. I just feel like that’s a character that I would want to play to feel a completion, because I never really completed playing her.
Penny Johnson Jerald
I’m lucky to have Penny around, she keeps the ship afloat.
Diana Taurasi
I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they’ve lost due to Napster.
Dave Rowntree
I started my first film, ‘Duniya Meri Jeb Main,’ with my childhood friends, Shashi and Rishi Kapoor. My brother became the producer. It was nice of Rishi to support my brother by not charging us a single penny.
Tinnu Anand
The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it’s always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.
Suze Orman
Geniuses sometimes end up very unhappy, without a penny.
Anthony Mann
I’m not no egotistical person. I just want what I’m supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less.
Dr. Dre
And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he’s a fool.
Dan Aykroyd
I won’t play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.
Honus Wagner
My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.
GG Allin
Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there.
Marc Ostrofsky
I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.
Jesse Ventura
I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn’t really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.
Bryan Adams
Tiger Woods is the only sports star who’s worth every penny he makes.
Mark Wahlberg
With my good friend Rob Penny, I founded the Black Horizons Theater in Pittsburgh with the idea of using the theater to politicize the community or, as we said in those days, to raise the consciousness of the people.
August Wilson
I wanted to make a black story about South Africa. Unfortunately, no producer in the United States would put one penny into a black story.
Euzhan Palcy
I didn’t become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.
Justin Chon
Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.
Wayne Dyer
I had a dog for 20 years and her name was ‘Penny,’ so I have a penny necklace.
Kidada Jones
Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.
John Hickenlooper
I wear Johnston & Murphy, not penny loafers.
Ben Howland
Sex in a woman’s world has the same currency a penny has in a man’s. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.
Harry Golden
Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising.
Robert Vaughn
When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn’t give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.
Kangana Ran
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If you’ve been running a business for 38 years, you’re approaching your 66th birthday, you’ve never owed a man a penny or done anyone any grievance in your life, and you feel hard done-by and try to protect yourself and your family, but go to prison, well if that’s the society we’re living in, I’m happy to accept that.
Sean Quinn
If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
Steven Wright
I’ve been charging what I deserve. I believe I am worth every penny of it, and if filmmakers think so, too, they will pay me.
Radhika Pandit
There are people who enjoy the life in England but don’t pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax.
Gordon Taylor
A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you’re managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.
P. J. O’Rourke
As a kid, I used to take the sheet off of my mother’s bed, make a tent and put on a show for the neighborhood kids and charge them two packs of matches. Then, the show got so good I started charging a penny.
Scatman Crothers
‘Penny for Your Thoughts’ was something I noodled on for a while.
Peter Frampton
Hotmail went from zero to 12 million users with zero marketing steps. Not a penny was spent on sales and marketing, which was astounding. It showed us the power of the network effect.
Steve Jurvetson
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.
Ludwig Quidde
I told the Inland Revenue I didn’t owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.
Ken Dodd
I have wanted to run my own business since my time at Clitheroe grammar school. I remember thinking if I could get a penny from everyone in Britain, I would earn £208,000 a year.
Peter Hargreaves
The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I’m no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.
Spider Robinson
I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supportive and encouraging. But I still said to myself, ‘If the Everleighs doesn’t sell, I’m finished with writing forever.’ I was going to get an office job.
Karen Abbott
The newspaper industry was built on the penny dreadfuls.
Gillian Flynn
Invest your money safely. Avoid the risky lure of spectacular returns; go for an investment that cannot lose its value. This is why I have put all my spare cash into buying not shares, but thousands of penny chews.
Dominic Holland
It turned out that those years I was at the Studio were the last years that Mr. Landau was alive and teaching. They were also the last years of some of the greatest teachers that have walked the earth. I got to hear the advice of Charlie Laughton, Mark Rydell, and Penny Allen.
Teresa Ruiz
If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer.
David Harsanyi
Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, ‘Let’s make a wish on a star,’ there’s one thing I wish for: wisdom.
Rene Russo
People who weren’t watching basketball were still fans of Lil Penny.
Penny Hardaway
Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn’t go far didn’t see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded.
Tim Allen
Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people.
Miriam Schapiro
As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America’s macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her ‘poor nerves.’
Maureen Dowd