Kerli Quotes

Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case.

A friend advises in his interest, not yours.

You have to be careful of social climbers. There are a lot of potholes out there.

I don't for one second spend any time thinking about carefully ingratiating myself with someone for the future.

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

Under every stone lurks a politician

The designing Party-Man always appears in the Mask of publick Spirit, and conceals the most selfish and riotous Disposition, under the venerable Pretext of asserting Liberty, and defending his Country

Everybody has an agenda.

Promise everything to anyone, unless clear obligation prevents it. Only live up to those promises which are of advantage to you.

Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.

Now, I know a lot of things in the big man's world are not what they seem: a lot of people are out for themselves, and you can't always trust what someone says.

Conscious people fully know who is serving them selflessly and who is trying to create anarchy.

I feel like, especially in Hollywood, you meet people with ulterior motives, who are trying to get something from you.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

It's all about what they can get out of me.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that for twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whisky, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops . . . I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you'll think of me, I'll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up.