Luc Besson Quotes

We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values - looking good, having cash in the bank, being perceived as rich, famous and successful or just being famous... It's the most superficial part of the American dream and who would know better than me? The only thing that's going to bring you happiness is love and how you treat your fellow man and having compassion for one another.

I think there's always interest in how the other half live - I see myself as a down-to-earth Essex mum who just happens to be living this very glamorous life in Beverly Hills.

Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career.

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.

And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

The rich follow Wealth, and the Poor the Rich.

All Society therefore is either for Gain, or for Glory; (i.e.) not so much for love of our Fellowes

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

The thing I get the most that I really love is that people don't so much mention films I've been in or shows I've been in as they say, instead, 'I love you. I just love your perseverance.' That really pleases me.

Providing - that's not love. Being there - that's more important. I mean, we see that. We see that with all these rich socialites. They're crying out for attention; they're hurting for love. I'm not being judgmental - I'm just making an observation. They're crying out for the love that maybe they didn't get at home, and they got everything.

My mother was loved by so many people, famous and not so famous.

It is a materialistic world full of mean people and not a place for people like me who value emotions.

She wants to lead the glamorous life, but without love, it ain't much.

We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.

Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.

Anyone who has two shirts when someone has none is not a christian.

We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.