Superficial Success Quotes

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

I've noticed, in the ebbs and flows of success and popularity, so much of it is fraudulent and to be distrusted.

I don't want to dedicate my life to getting publicity.

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.

Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.

Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

I developed an interesting skill set in that I was able to create a network and create experiences and environment - I built this decadent playground for men. It might have been successful, but it wasn't important. It didn't have any true meaning.

Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.

You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.

The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of 'normal life.'

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they do. People feel like outsiders even if others think we, the lives we live, have everything. If they are popular or they have everything they are supposed to have. Even then, people still don't feel quite included.

How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

I don't watch 'The X Factor' any more. Why do I want to see someone say the same old thing - it's all they've ever dreamed about - then lose and burst into tears and go into neurosis? They just want to be famous - it doesn't matter how.

If you're only trading on looks and your body, that's only going to go so far. But that was never my bag. I was always about the whole package.

There are those who build careers and companies just out of being popular on Instagram, but there's nothing behind them.

Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood