Anne Hathaway Quotes

I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.

I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.

I'm not really the type that spends money on myself.

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

I am not the sort of person who will wake up and go and buy myself a Ferrari.

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.

I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

The key to survival is that when times are good you don't forget where you came from and you don't build crazy overhead just because you can. You live like you are going out of business every day and it makes you healthy.

I'm not interested in money.

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

I don't know if I was ever meant to have that flashy lifestyle.

This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.

I grew up with very little - so material things have never been that important for me.

As soon as I got rich, it was mimosas every morning. I was taking my friends to Six Flags every weekend. We were flying to Hawaii; we did whatever we wanted.

We don't take advantage of our position. We keep saying no to free stuff, as we can afford it now.

I used to have Lamborghinis, Ferraris parked up outside the house - just parked there with no one driving them! Now I'm much wiser, and I only have one car that I drive. What's the point of having three cars just parked up when you don't need them?

I am always a little skeptical when I see people talking about how much money they have.

Ever since I left the Brit school I've been so protected. I had a woman to do my hair and makeup every day throughout my 20s.

I'm not really worried about the flashy stuff. I don't got chains and cars. I spend what I need to spend. It doesn't faze me.