Katherine Hepburn

Ah, yes, divorce … from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet

You can’t tell a millionaire’s son from a billionaire’s.

I’m so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn’t understand, she had to explain: ‘That’s like three Mercedes.’ Then I understood.

Use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal.

Money is the best deodorant.

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren’t trying to change the world. That’s what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I’ve known in my life. That’s just the truth.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.

We’re not motivated to make more money. We all have too much already. We want to do good work.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn’t be enough to go around.

I don’t mind that I’m fat. You still get the same money.

I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

[on money] It cannot buy you happiness. Some independence, yes.

I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died!