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

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don’t know what a child actor is. She’s an actor who’s a child.

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

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.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

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

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn’t work the other way around.

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

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.

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.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

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

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

I live in Hollywood, but you can’t make me love Hollywood. I’ll never love Hollywood.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don’t fit in that box, you’re gone. Television, there’s more room to move around.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

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

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

A film is sort of binary – it either works or it doesn’t work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

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

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Morality is contraband in war.

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

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

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.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.