Eleanor Mondale Quotes

I don't think I'm supposed to boss other people around just because I'm a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I've seen it happen. I don't call those people out - they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I'll take it. I guess I'm part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I'll take that, too.

You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.

I'm not a diva - not yet, anyway.

I'm no producer's kid.

Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool.

I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

I know that I am not entitled to anything, and when somebody thinks they are, that's a step in the wrong direction.

I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

It's amazing how people will treat you better when you're 'somebody.' The minute clerks in a store recognize me, they suddenly rush to take care of me. That irritates me.

I can't really act entitled.

I'm not exceptional. I didn't grow up with privilege.

I didn't want to use my father's name. I don't think I will ever want to use his influence... Never have I gone around asking people, 'Do you know who I am...' Even if it's to cut a line at the airport.

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

I enjoy my rights, but I revel in my privileges.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

A lot of players go into a restaurant and ask for a special table. I go and stand in line with the working people. It's very easy to get spoiled playing professional sports.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special - Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I won't even take a picture.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

The minute you get too big to mop a floor or wipe a counter, that's the exact minute you have life f**ked up.