Nana Patekar Quotes

A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

Of course, I'd like to earn Jonathan Ross's money, but I don't have sleepless nights wondering when someone's going to knock on my door with sacks of cash.

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

I don't particularly care how many records we sell any more because we've kind of bought all the equipment we want to buy.

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

As we get rich, the basics of life - food, clothing and shelter - become a very small part of total expenditure. And people have enough money to purchase things that enhance them spiritually, and I mean the word 'spiritual' not necessarily in a religious sense but in the sense that it adds to your feeling of well-being.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

I always tried to live my life as though nothing changed. People would say, 'You can have a Rolls-Royce'. I'd say to that, 'What do I want with a Rolls-Royce when I can have a Volkswagen or a bike?' Some people get carried away with the juice.

I never put a premium on making a living. It was never one of those things that was important to me.

I'm O.K. having a comfortable life. I don't have to live in a mansion and drive Aston Martins or Ferraris.

I'm grateful to be successful, and I'm grateful that we can make a living, and I hope we can maintain our integrity forever. That's really my only dream. The notion of bigness or smallness, I feel like that comes and goes in such waves that are kind of out of my control.

I'm not interested in money.

I've never had big diamonds; I never had big cars.

I'm sure I could have been a rich man, but I never was.

You want to have a good job so you can make good money. You want to make good money so you can buy nice things. You want to have nice things so you can impress a nice woman.

I know people who are wealthy and they're miserable.

I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.