One of my favorite L.A. movies is 'Ed Wood,' and it's about how Bela Lugosi went from being this movie star personality to living in a little bungalow with his cats in the valley where, if you walked by, you'd have no idea. He'd come out and get his paper, and you'd go, 'That guy looks familiar.'
Don't nobody listen to Nas anymore.
I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular
I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star.
So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')
When people don't hear you on the radio they think 'maybe he retired.'
Hollywood has unfortunately become a memory. It's nothing but a sign on the side of a hill.
Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.
A lot of times, guys leave WWE or get fired by WWE, but there's always that little bit of buzz right when they get out on the scene, but like all buzz, it fades. But I feel really flattered that, for whatever reason, it seems to be trending upwards.
In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.
My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
The majority of people don't even realise I was a tennis player. The older you get, the less people remember what you did before.
Everybody likes the new guy. Being the new guy is cool. But then when you're there for a couple months, you're just the cool guy. I think I'm just the cool guy.
I'm not someone like Norma Desmond who's harking back to her younger days.
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.
Once you've published a few books, you drag around this ball and chain of a back list. All the evidence of how few you've sold is there. I think a lot of writers my age have this strange experience of going from would-be to has-been.
Twenty-five years ago I couldn't walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don't ask me about my movies and they don't ask me about my salad dressing because they don't know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.
I slowly became less famous and less successful. That was very difficult.
If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.
I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile.
Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.
I had a slow couple of years and people forgot about me.
