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.

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

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Man is a universe within himself.

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

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

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

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

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

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

I say to the paparazzi, ‚Fellas, take your shot and go.‘ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.

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

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

Only the shallow know themselves.

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

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.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

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

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

I’m easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

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

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’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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.

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.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‚one size fits all‘ standard for happiness.

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

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

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 worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

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

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

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

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

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.