Wale Quotes

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.

It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.

It wasn't very easy getting used to being famous. Everybody stared at me in the supermarket and on the street. I think my life changed, for sure.

I started Verite on savings from three years working at Applebee's in Times Square. I was a ridiculously good waitress. I was making more money than my brother, who worked at a start-up.

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying.

People ask all the time, 'What would you be doing if you weren't Kid Rock?' It's simple: I'd be broke Kid Rock.

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing to come to terms with. Now I'm in my late 20s and I was in my early 20s when I became recognizable. But I think 'Moneyball' represents a very strong shift in my career and becoming an adult and a man.

My father worked two jobs. He assembled speakers during the day, and then he sold real estate at night and on weekends. And then he eventually, when he was in his mid-50s, became a full-time real estate salesman.

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

What Is a Good Job? It is a job for which the worker is qualified and for which he has been prepared. It is one which will not enslave him for life, but which shall employ him for as long a time as he needs it in order to win his own economic safety for life. It is one which will reward him lavishly — not in wages or in any form of money payments since money is far too unstable a medium for such purposes — but it shall reward him with due amounts of the actual things and services which he requires in the carrying on of his daily existence.

I know I am in a band that is famous, and my private life is famous. I get it, and it's fine. Even when I grew up in a village, people wanted to know who was going to the dance with whom, and I understand, but I think if I engage with it too much, it won't be that healthy.

Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.

Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well.