Ben E. King Quotes

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

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.

Once upon a time in America, people aspired to party like a rock star. Now, rock stars aspire to party like a football owner.

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

I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.

Just because I live in L.A .and I live in Hollywood doesn't mean I have to have a Hollywood life.

I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later.

Lots of people, from what I can see, just want to get into the music business for the glamour of it. But there isn't any, really. It's so up and down this industry, but if you really love it, nothing can stop you.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.

Hollywood is a whole other level of crazy. I've never met so many assistants who have assistants. It's a stratified society on its own.

I never thought I'd be a, quote, 'rock & roll star.'

Being a rock star rocks.

You can't buy being a rock star.