Four years [to get famous]. Six to get rich. First, you’re gonna have to dress right, y’know? Then, you’re gonna have to hang out with famous people. Make friends with the right blond people. Go to the right parties, yeah? Socialite. Then, you gotta do your work all the time when you’re not doin’ that. But, I’m talkin’ about the same kinda work, the same style, so people can recognize it and don’t get confused, y’know? Then, once you’re famous, airborne, you gotta keep doin’ it the same way. Even after it’s boring, unless you want people to really get mad, which, they will anyway.
—Benicio del Toro, Basquiat
