Shilling Quotes

I remember being in Japan 10 years ago for a golf tournament. I turned over a Kirin beer coaster, and there was Harrison Ford`s picture. He`s a guy who would never be caught dead doing a commercial here. He had a bottle in his hand and the most uncomfortable look on his face, like, "I can`t believe I`m shilling." When Sofia Coppola, the director of Lost in Translation, sent me the script, she included a photo and said, `This is what I have in mind.`, It was Brad Pitt in an ad for espresso in a can, and he had the same grimace: `I can`t believe I`m selling this can of coffee.`, That influenced me when I had to do my own shtick. - 2003 quote on his role in Lost In Translation.

I had no money at all when I was a student in the early `50s but I could get into a gallery at the Old Vic for one shilling and sixpence.

I prefer the Yankee dollar to the British shilling, especially when the Yankee dollar is near at hand and the British shilling so far away.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.