It's sad to see boxers sometimes when they've come from these massive highs with thousands of people screaming for them. They're the best at what they do - then, that's it: stopped, finished.
Once you become famous, you can't become unfamous. You can become a failure.
James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.
I slowly became less famous and less successful. That was very difficult.
The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much.
I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.
I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.
Disney became hated. It became one of the evil corporations. It used to be loved. They couldn't hold onto talent; they couldn't attract talent. Some of their products did badly. The Californialand project was a $5 billion waste of money. They couldn't make it work. The magic had gone, no pun intended.
