Nick Bantock Quotes

Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' in the course of, like, a month.

One minute you're nobody and the next thing you've got people following you around.

I went from living my life anonymously for 58 years to being a public figure known globally in a matter of minutes.

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

To be famous and broke is hard.

I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.

Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.

When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

I went from being 'Mario who?' to 'Mario baby!

Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.

David Frost plucked me from the nightclubs.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

A lot of people think they can become world stars overnight.

I'm the poorest famous person in the country.

To go from not being recognised at all to literally, the next day, having people stop you in the street was very, very weird. I had to buy myself a great baseball cap.

I awoke one day to find myself famous.

Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?

When you finally end something like Superman and then find yourself world-famous, it's pretty weird, lemme tell ya. Fame is weird, is what it really is. It's the weirdest thing in the world.

I'm a big game show fan. When you're a poor person, you watch game shows. I don't think people realize that. Maybe everybody watches game shows, but when you're poor, you live vicariously through those people.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.