Wagner Moura Quotes

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it.

I decided that I was going to be the Kennedy who makes her own name and finds her own job and works like a dog. My comeuppance was when Arnold got elected - I became the Kennedy who was married to the governor.

There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.

In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.

If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

When you start hanging out with Jennifer Lopez and Bill Clinton, you can't expect to remain an everyday person.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

Politics are now nothing more than the means of rising in the world.

You can’t be rich, strong, and loved, particularly by those who are not rich or strong.

All Society therefore is either for Gain, or for Glory; (i.e.) not so much for love of our Fellowes

Many Indians turned to the gun for the same reason as did some Europeans: the prestige attached to them. Indians, like many members of the European elite, owned guns not simply because they served a function but as a symbol of power and wealth

Power in itself has never attracted me, nor has position been my goal.

I want to have a catalogue or a share in a company. I'm trying to take my family's name from lower-middle class to aristocracy. I have my sights set high.

The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.