Luxury Life Quotes

I always say: 'If I'm lucky enough to be given the opportunity to work again, that's it, I'm being wheeled on, sitting on a sofa, and someone's going to feed me grapes, and I'm not getting up.'

I am always surrounded by very, very charming men, very intelligent men with a great sense of humour who always keep me entertained and pampered.

This is my experience on 'RuPaul's Drag Race:' three square meals a day, a challenge and put to bed by 9:30 P. M. Honey it doesn't get any better than that.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

I was living a charmed life.

By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.

My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.

I had a period in my life, maybe a decade or so, in which I was involved in that kind of thing, associating with the elite of various segments of society. It always made me extremely uncomfortable. I couldn't wait to get out of there and change my clothes. The good part about that was getting home and changing into my regular clothes. Taking off the suit and the tie, taking off the tight shoes, and just relaxing. Being away from that stuff. It was stimulating, but I never liked it. I always felt it was a terrible, terrible burden.

I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Faberge. That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank, and from that moment on, there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life.

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure

It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.

I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.

That luxury, ossified Los Angeles world isn't good for the soul.

What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to rill in and die for their entertainment?

I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it.

I've been there a thousand years, and I never felt comfortable. Beverly Hills - when I first saw it, I thought they put it up this morning. You got to pack water to get to the drugstore.

I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.

There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.

Let's take Taylor Swift. She lives in a huge beautiful apartment; she gets limo-ed everywhere. She's not seeing what it means to live in New York.

'Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things.

Unfortunately, I didn't get to know Paolo Montero that well. He was someone else who lived like a king at night.