Joseph Wambaugh Quotes

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.

I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

Unbeknown to me, my manager, under my very nose (in a crouching position) has all these years been secretly compiling a book from my correspondence. I often wondered what she was doing in my office. She never did a stroke of work for me. All the time, I have been working for her.

If you cash in on people, then they aren't your friends.

I would never manipulate somebody and put somebody in peril so that I could get rich off of it.

I hate when people cheat.

I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

Writers are always selling somebody out.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives.

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

Here in Washington ruining people is considered sport

Is there any way we can screw him?

Politics is so corrupt that even the dishonest people get fucked.