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

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

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

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

I get really restless when I haven’t worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

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

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

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

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‚Is that a $20 million take?‘ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

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

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

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.

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

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn’t the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn’t have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I’d got now for an ‚adult‘ DW.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

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.‘

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

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.

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.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.