Johnny Colt Quotes

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

Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.

I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.

And no, having the hits is just more work.

He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many great friends, and by all accounts was a good, generous and loyal friend. But there were a lot of people who wanted only a piece of him.

Both my parents were huge stars. I would never have attempted to become as big of stars as they were because they lived in a different era.

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

From a very young age people have been touting me as a world champion. So it can be tough, playing in the spotlight and people expecting big things from you all the time.

I couldn't be a Taylor Swift. I would really suck at being Taylor Swift.

I've always tried to be the same person I was before I won Wimbledon, but it has been very difficult.

When you're in one of the biggest media markets and you have a good team and you're predicted to do well, if you struggle at any point, they're going to come after you. Even when you're playing well, you're not winning by enough.

That's what happens when you play in L.A. Everybody expects you to do well.

Being the Rated-R Superstar, I have to live up to the reputation.

It was weird. I joined this band because my life was all about singing. Then Girls Aloud became successful, and suddenly it wasn't just about being able to sing any more. It turned into a beauty contest.

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things when you're a young athlete trying to do well.

I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.

Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.

I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.

I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.