Rich Quotes

'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins.

~ Michel Faber

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

~ Don Marquis

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

~ Barry Zito

Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.

~ Bear Grylls

I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

~ Anton Du Beke

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

~ Paul Lynde

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

~ Panayiotis Zavos

All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

~ F. Sionil José

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.

~ Robert Dallek

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

~ Brigitte Bardot

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

~ Alan Alda

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

~ Alan Alda

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

~ Ang Lee

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

~ Kevin Bacon

Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always willing to tell the interesting bits.

~ Michael Korda

Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain.

~ Andrew Breitbart

Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.

~ Philippe Petit

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.

~ Jewel

I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

~ Anton Du Beke

I was a latchkey kid, so when I saw the 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,' that showed me that there was a different type of lifestyle out there. I was curious about it and amazed about it.

~ Loni Love

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

~ Ani Difranco

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.

~ Bill Murray

I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.

~ Jane Pauley

What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.

~ Jon Landau

The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.

~ Graham Norton

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

~ Julie Walters

As the White House doors are slammed in the face of the average American, I want to know if they will still swing wide open for Hollywood and the liberal elite. Will Jay-Z and Beyonce still get to stop by for a tour, or will they be denied like those who aren't rich and famous?

~ Tom Graves

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

~ Nicholas Sparks

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

~ Don Johnson

If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.

~ Danny Bonaduce

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

~ Paul Hogan

In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

~ Dido Armstrong

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

~ Frida Lyngstad

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California.

~ Deb Caletti

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

~ George Herbert

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

~ Harry Browne

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

~ Anatole France

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

~ Anatole France

I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment, and mental activity, all helpful to the nurture of an imaginative child who wanted from an early age to be a writer.

~ Stephen Hunter