Dev Anand Quotes

I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.

You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

The entertainment industry and my place in it is a place where you burn brightly for as long as you can.

I don't believe in stardom; it is like a relationship. Today it is with you, tomorrow it might go to someone else.

I don't want to be a rock star. I had my 15 minutes of fame.

Since I remember still very clearly what it was like not being popular or in a successful band, I know that things go up and down, and you cannot expect this to be on the same trajectory forever. It won't be. Because even if you get to be the biggest band in the world, it's gonna change.

In showbiz, so much success and fame comes your way and then it passes on to someone else.

The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.

'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'

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.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

I think I'll be flavor of the month when I'm in my fifties.

The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

Everyone knows that in Hollywood, when you're hot, you've got to run with it. Because eventually they kick you out.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Fame is short-lived, and you're the last to know when you are no longer hot.

I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.