Christopher Lee Quotes

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

It's feast or famine in showbiz.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

There is often better opportunity attached to fame, at least career-wise. But it's a flash. You can't control it. You can't depend on it.

To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've learned not to build my expectations.

To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.

I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.

Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

Anything can change in show business; you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

I always say, even in this industry that I'm in - I'm on a show today, but the show could get cancelled.

I love this business. Here today, gone, gone tomorrow. I was real gone for a while.

The very nature of acting is one minute you're up and the next you're down; one minute you're in favour and the next you're forgotten. You go away and you come back again.

success in L.A. is completely arbitrary. One day you're the brilliant genius of life, the next day people act like there's a bad smell when you approach. Lots of expensive, late-model cars are offered in the L.A. Times every day by people who have suddenly begun to smell bad. The stakes are just too high for human dignity.

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.

I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.

One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next - no one wanted me.

T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.