“When you become successful you lose what it is that made you successful. You start going to exclusive clubs. You see the most boring people—they’re successful just like you. They have no need to use their bodies and their brains and their charm and don’t need to be generous emotionally. They become large buckets of goatshit.”
Walter Matthau (quoted in Rob Edelman And Audrey Kupferberg, Matthau: A Life)