Tony Romo Quotes

The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

There have been artists who've sold out arenas one year, and the next they can't fill a theatre. There's always more to achieve.

You get your time in the limelight but you don't know how long it's going to last. It's great, but you have to put up with a lot.

I have worked with artists who are super-young and new and experiencing success, and I feel bad because I can see it in their eyes that they truly think that is it for the rest of their life. And I am like, 'It may be, but you have to work at it, and even if you do, it may not be, so enjoy what is going on right now.'

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.

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.

If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn't open well; they're looking for the next person to replace you; it's always something. You never have true peace.

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

I'm only as good as my next appearance and my next match.

It's tricky because obviously when you join a new club, from the very first day, everyone looks at you and tries to see if you are good enough. That's more or less what you have to go through. Then the other thing is that when I signed for West Ham nobody told me I was going to be number one.

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

Honeymoons are great, but they don't last. And I think the same is true with success on the screen - today, I am all over the place; tomorrow, I may be gone - I may have to make room for someone else. So why make a big song and dance about it all?

It's difficult, because when you're a popular singer who makes money, you're basically a race horse. And that's how you're treated by the people around you.

If you aren't hot in Hollywood, you feel like you're in Siberia.

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

People tell me all the time that my 15 minutes are up.

As a footballer, everything you've achieved can easily be lost, and then you are nobody. That's just how life is, and that's why you shouldn't let things get you down. That's the reason I treat every match like a final.

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.

The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about.