Alan K. Simpson Quotes

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.

It's feast or famine in showbiz.

You can be on top of the world one day and the next day you can go 0-for-4 with four strikeouts.

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.

One day you are on the top, the other day you're on the bottom. That's how it works.

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.

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality.

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.

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.

One minute you can be the blue-eyed boy and the next match you can be slated.

You reach the top of the heap, but it's a circle, and you slip on the down side, maybe for years. You get scared.

If there's one thing I'd say to anyone out there, is that if you're in this game, it's a rollercoaster. There's a lot of ups and downs.

I had just broke in and everything was going so well, to have it all ripped away like that is not nice. That's part of football, and that stuff happens all the time. You go from the highest of highs, and then it's taken away and you're from there to rock bottom.

I think, in football, everything goes fast, and as fast as you can go up, you can go down. So basically, every day you work to be ready.

In showbiz one minute you're up there making thousands of people laugh, next minute you're picking up toffees, you know it's real life.

Football is a funny game. Today, you are zero; tomorrow, you are a hero.

Popularity is a bubble. It's a mountain: you can go up really hard but walk down really fast.

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.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

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.

They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?