Roberto Carlos Quotes

I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.

If you cash in on people, then they aren't your friends.

I felt cheated because a lot of people wanted a relationship with my father, and they played me.

The worst is, a friend will invite me over, and she'll say, 'Hey, you've been working so hard. I'll make you dinner. It'll be great.' I'm like, 'That's so sweet! Thank you!' And I'll come over, and she's got hardwood samples laid out! She's using me!

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.

I always like a charity with people who don't speak English because I get them to do all kinds of things around my house.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.

We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other.

I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore.

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.

I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.

I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives.

I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.

As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.

It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.

Unbeknown to me, my manager, under my very nose (in a crouching position) has all these years been secretly compiling a book from my correspondence. I often wondered what she was doing in my office. She never did a stroke of work for me. All the time, I have been working for her.

Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.

If people think the boss is manipulating them to get them to work harder, it backfires.

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.