Kendrick Lamar Quotes

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.

Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the experience to really appreciate it.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

A lot of people my age who are working right now have never acted; they get a show and suddenly they're making millions. It's always those people who get it fast who have the most trouble staying grounded and being themselves.

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

I've seen a lot of actors in a lot of different stages of their careers, and I've seen it come and go. People get a sense of entitlement from it. And that's when it starts getting you in trouble.

I got caught up in the whole celebrity thing, lost control at times.

It's easy to get swept up in the trappings of that sort of lifestyle, but I've been doing it for long enough that I know how easy it is to fall victim to that sort of arrogance and cockiness that celebrity culture can bring about, in young men especially.

People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.

It's a wonderful world when you have what you want at all times.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.

Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.