Julia Child Quotes

The one thing I like about being a celebrity more than anything is being able to get into any restaurant I want.

The absolute truth is that there is no power in celebrity.

People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Language does not make one an elite.

Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.

I've always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

'Heathers' was probably the first time when I started to notice that people were opening doors for me and giving me tables at restaurants, regardless of what I was wearing. A whole world opened up to me that was shocking and weird and different, and I enjoyed it, and, you know, I took great advantage of it at times.

Life is tough and it's tough whether you're famous or not famous. And in the end it's probably better to be famous because the perks are better. You get better seats at the basketball game, and you get better tables and reservations places. If I call a doctor on Saturday morning I can get him. There's a lot of things, indulgences that you don't get, if you're not famous. Now I'm not saying it's fair. But I can't say that I don't enjoy it.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

I love getting into restaurants and getting free stuff - that part of fame I definitely enjoy!

I'm a tough person. I wasn't afraid of other kids because I understood that someday they'd wash my car.

A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.

People who own everything know how to relax a little and bend and exhale once in a while, but they're not going to let it get out of control.

I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.

Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.