People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

I think the word rich is all relative.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Money for me today does not really matter.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s word.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Seeing is not always believing.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.