Imelda May Quotes

We're not the millionaires that people think when they see busses.

I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money.

People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

It is true that rich people can spend more money than middle class people, but there's this upper limit on what we can spend. I drive a very nice car, but it's only one car. I don't own a thousand, even though I earn a thousand times the median wage. I have a few jackets, not a few thousand.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.

Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.

People don't get it; they think I'm rich. I'm not! I have no money.

I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I shop in a supermarket like everyone else.

I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich.

I'm not one of these actors who's rolling in money.

I don't care whether something makes one dollar or a trillion because guess what? I don't know many happy rich people. And I know a lot of rich people.

I have to keep working because, although I have land, I'm not cash rich and don't have the wealth of high-profile actresses - don't say I'm an 'actor.' That's a bit too modern.

When I was a young man, an individual with one million dollars was very rich. Anyone with a few millions more was considered richer than rich.

I don't have as much money as Rahm Emanuel.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.