Paul McCartney Quotes

I'll know I'm famous when I have five Ferraris, seven houses, Cameron Diaz on my arm and a little man following me with a huge bag of money.

You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that your security changes, and you're known for the wrong things.

Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

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.

I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.

Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

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

There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.

Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

When I first dreamt of becoming a movie star, I wanted to be a Gary Cooper: I wanted to be rich and famous, living in palaces and wearing dark glasses and white suits.

Let me tell you, there's nothing like pulling up to Fox Studios bumping Jeezy in your Mercedes.

I'd like to be rich, but without all the downside of fame.

I'm going to go with ZZ Top -- they're my faves . . . because of the whole thing that they do with the guitars and the old Father Time beards.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.

When you get famous and rich when you're young, what happens is you start feeling insecure.

A man can never have too many pairs of sunglasses or too many guitars.

Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.