Garry Shandling Quotes

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.

There are all these tests that are done on young kids and they all say they want to be famous but I just always felt that for my generation being famous was kind of corny and cheesy. Maybe because fame isn't something that proves you're good at something.

For me, success isn't even about money. It's about getting to do what you love and supporting yourself. Everything that comes after that is bonus, unless your only goal is to be rich. If that's your goal, you're going to find out that once you have a little bit, you want a lot. Then once you have a lot, you want a lot more.

We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

Here in the United States, we're consumed by our love of money and status. We think bigger is better, and if we can just get that promotion, all will be well with our souls. There's one fatal flaw to this mindset: it's all smoke and mirrors.

I just want to be rich and famous.

Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

I think money, power, fame changes people a lot.

I think it's way harder when you have success, 'cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it.

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.