Holly Johnson Quotes

You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.

I have some star status. But I don't have that sustained success rate.

It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.

Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

All of my friends in the business ask, 'Why is this woman not a star? Why is she not a household name?'

Right now I'm in 'Twilight' and I go around to signings and there are people screaming and crying, and it's so surreal. I know that when this is over in a month or two and whenever 'Twilight's no longer relevant, that doesn't live on for me. It's because of this. It's not very often that this happens for people.

Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years.

I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

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

It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase.

One line on a Tom Selleck sitcom does not a career make.

You can't buy being a rock star.

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

I didn't find fame particularly difficult, partly because I'm proud to be able to say I'm the most unrecognisable face in pop.

I didn't want to be one of these superstars that just come and then just disappear.

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