We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

I’m filthy rich!

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

We have the best government that money can buy.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

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.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they’re not reachable.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

It was the money from ‚Star Wars‘ and ‚Jaws‘ that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I’m attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.