Walter Mercado Quotes

I feel when a new comer acts in his first film, he starts feeling top of world and nature changes due to the stardom. And then downfall starts to happen.

Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.

If you're at the top, people worship you wherever you go. But when you're dying down, it's difficult to sell tickets!

It's always been my dream to be among the big names of Colombia.

I rarely get starstruck, but I've been a Jay-Z fan since fourth grade and had a huge crush on Beyonce in high school. I respect their artistry, and now I've joined Roc Nation - it's even more crazy.

You see kids leave drama school who are drop-dead gorgeous and they just go stratospheric instant'aneously.

I won Miss Teen World, and then a movie rep saw me on the pageant website and thought that I had the perfect image for the role in 'Madrasapattinam.'

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

A Star Is Born' was everything. Gaga and Bradley, and having people you look up to laugh at your jokes, felt really good.

Lots of people knew who Kevin Hart was a decade before he hit it big.

I didn't want to just be a rapper, I wanted to be a star.

We may have broken up at the height of our fame, but it was not the height of our success.

If you want to blow up hang around me because all of my friends we would hang out and next thing I know they are major worldwide superstars.

Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.

With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.

There are parts that you can do them all your life, and no one knows you're even acting, and there are other parts which somehow - I think they say they 'pop' - people notice that you're in and you become an actor from the movies and people take you in a whole different way. Whether or not I can keep that ball rolling is another matter.

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

Before I became famous I used to think there's no smoke without fire. But believe me, there can be a fire without smoke.

Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

I'll step in an airport just now, and people will recognize me. I'm in Harlem on 144th and whatever, and people are coming up to me like, "What's up, Chamillionaire?" And seeing it grow is, nothing turning into something, that feeling is a really good feeling.

Whether it happens over 10 years, like with a lot of people, or with one hit movie that thrusts you into that world, when you become successful as an actor, you become well known. In the end game, that's just part of the business.

I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans and without that you don't have a career.

I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star, I didn’t know anybody, I wanted to dance, I wanted to sing, I wanted to do all those things, I wanted to make people happy, I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true.

There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.