Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.

Venus can see at night without eyes.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

In order to fight off fear we must become it. When we become one with fear we become one with opposite of fear, peace. They are two halves to the same object.

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

The franchise tag is worth something to the team, and you can't be afraid to use it.

God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

You cannot solve the climate crisis if you are putting people out of work.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.