“I don’t like being famous – it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.”– Valentino Rossi Related Quotes “Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.”– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.”– David Friedman “I’d had people say, ‘You’ll enjoy being famous for a week, and you’ll never enjoy it again’. But I don’t think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.”– Matt Damon