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

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

When you’re a pop star, it’s a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

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.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

You make more money if you’re generous.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

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

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

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.

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.‘

I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

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

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

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

For I can raise no money by vile means.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you’re going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Of course, I do everything for money.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

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

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can’t not be what everyone says I am. But I don’t feel like an icon.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

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?

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Money does not change people, people change.

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.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

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.

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

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.

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

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

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

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

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.