Gene Simmons Quotes

Acting is a great gig. It pays well, I get to meet some nice people, and it allows me to play a lot of golf. I'm a real lucky guy.

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.

Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.

The rich make you famous; the poor make you a hero.

You have to understand how lucky I feel. I was on 'Saturday. Night. Live.' I played with the Clash! On what planet would I look at anything in my life in any less-than-stellar way?

To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.

I just think my life's been really blessed, because being in show business, I've met wonderful people, and I've traveled all over the world.

We are in the the entertainment business, and we all know if you are top of the tree, you get big money.

I'm not a millionaire, a billionaire, a CEO, or a movie star.

On my 50th birthday the Rolling Stones played at my party at Grosvenor House. That's not bad for a kid from Tooting.

It's a pleasure. We are lucky guys to be there in front of the millions and millions watching us.

I've been very fortunate. But rich? People make huge assumptions about the guys in Gn'R.

I think that not being all that overwhelmed by good reviews is a luxury. I'm like a rich person who says he doesn't care about money.

Let me tell you, there's nothing like pulling up to Fox Studios bumping Jeezy in your Mercedes.

A lot of my friends and the people I mingle with, they not famous. They don't got half of what I got. For me, what that do is, it keeps me humble. It keeps me grateful and appreciative of what I got.

I'd like to be rich, but without all the downside of fame.

I'd like to have the fortune, but I don't care too much about the fame.

My whole family are in the entertainment industry. It is always something I was used to; I was quite lucky growing up. To all my friends, it was quite exciting, but to me it was quite normal.

I'm not Russell Brand or Ricky Gervais, but I have enough money that I don't have to work. Most people who've done what I do don't have that.

I know some of the richest and most powerful men in the world, and they're jealous of me.

I came from nothing and I have a chance to do something that happens once in a lifetime. There are only a couple people who can wake up and say that they're a world champion, a multimillionaire, and a successful superstar.

Three weeks into being in Hollywood, I was playing with Slash through an ad in the paper.

Superstars in every era have come from outside the industry, and that will continue to happen because cinema is nobody's birthright.

It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)

Meanwhile, I get to make an album. I feel like I've been very lucky. There is a guilt when I see people I know who work really hard, then I'm like, "Oh, I've got to do an interview today." I'm so appreciative of all of this, but it does feel like the bubble will burst at some point and it will all have been a dream.