Tilda Swinton Quotes

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

I think there's always interest in how the other half live - I see myself as a down-to-earth Essex mum who just happens to be living this very glamorous life in Beverly Hills.

You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.

The rich - they just live in another realm, really.

Rich people only like being around rich people.

With 'Nobody Knows,' I consciously set out to make a fiction film, which is a different approach from 'Distance,' but I still applied a lot of the things I learned from making 'Distance': for example, how to use the camera in relation to the children and how to create the right atmosphere on set.

The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.

I have nothing against rich people. In fact, I've been struggling most of my life to join them.

Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.

I'm a very creative person, and you know when I hooked up with Benny Boom, I said I want it to be a different kind of video. I want it to be crisp, and I want it to relate, [and] not to be so far over people's heads. And that's when we came up with the p-t-d-d-d-d-d (camera flashes.) You know with the picture changing, and that's it.

There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

The only people who really worry about money are the very poor and the very rich.

Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.

People who own everything know how to relax a little and bend and exhale once in a while, but they're not going to let it get out of control.

Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.

I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves.

What I do see in New York and I am amazed is how many rich women will complain about the cost of something and get things for free.I would never want to be like them, but I can see why they save money.

Steven Soderbergh really likes Irréversible, that's about all I can tell you. About the making, well, it was a very particular situation, because those people all know each other, and they're all big stars. I felt like the little French guy, really. And I was very flattered to be called on that, of course, but I felt like if I didn't find something to be a little original, different, particular in the movie, I would just disappear.

When you're first-generation money, you want to say, "I got a Mercedes and a Rolls and a Lamborghini. Take a look." When you're second-generation money, you're very quiet behind your country club doors. I think that's why people are much more aware. It's the first-generation wives that have the huge rings and the second-generation says, "Everyone be quiet as we get on our yacht or our private plane."

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.