Mason Cooley Quotes

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

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

Money ain't everything.

I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

‘Money can't buy happiness.’ That's just a lie we tell poor people to keep them from rioting in the streets

I think if you talk to anybody who ever went from not having much to having enough to buy what they wanted, they're always happier. Now I get that whole '$75,000 a year is some kind of magic number,' but my experience is 'more is better, up to a point.' Then there's a point where it doesn't make any difference.

Money will not give you happiness; it's part of the key.

I don't think happiness comes with money, but if you are hungry, you can't be as happy as if you aren't hungry.

I don't need more money. I don't need that to be happy.

Money's a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn't have - nice things - but happiness? That's a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.

The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.

With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.

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

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

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.