Belinda Carlisle Quotes

Aw man, I spend it pretty much as fast as I make it. If I want something, I don't wait around and plan or nothing. I just go out and get it.

I go through money like a bloke with three arms.

I've never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market.

I spend my money like I don't have anything.

After 'X Factor,' I got loads of gigs. Then I went on holiday just after the tour and bought my Rolex in Tenerife. I needed to go through that phase - splurge and see that it's worthless - to get it out of my system.

I'm a pro-horserace guy.

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

Without grounding, it's easy to embrace the 'baller' lifestyle: dropping out of tech, throwing money at cars, boats and real estate, and slipping into a cycle of spending and indulgence.

I blew about pounds 70,000 on stupid things - a very expensive car which got written off, and nightclubs. I'd always pick up the bill. It's very easy to spend a lot of money in a short space of time, going out.

I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

I have been going from one racetrack to another for years, since I was 14.

I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.

When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when I went to college at Southern Illinois University, just a few hours from Louisville, we used to go to the Kentucky Derby, and I got to see Secretariat and Riva Ridge win.

I would put my million dollars up as well.

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.

My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.

When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race.

I do not think that you can spend yourself rich.