Become Quotes

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

To me, a groupie is a stalker. If you're a fan, then you're a fan. But I can look at a woman and become a fan of hers instantly.

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.

Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.