“I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.”
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“One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.”
“We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.”
“The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.”
“I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.”
“I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.”
“Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.”
“Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.”
“It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.”
“I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.”
“I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.”
“I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.”
“Only the elites despise earning money.”
“I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I don't spend too much at all.”
“You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.”
“As kids we didn't complain about being poor we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.”
“While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.”
“France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.”
“I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.”
“Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.”
“Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.”
“Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.”
“It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.”
“I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.”