Brian Boitano Quotes

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.

But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable.

Everyone knows that in Hollywood, when you're hot, you've got to run with it. Because eventually they kick you out.

People are always jumping at what's new - who's the next person, who's the hottest thing, or whatever - so to be able to grasp the attention of everybody is difficult.

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.

Fame is short-lived, and you're the last to know when you are no longer hot.

You step away from the public eye for too long, they don't care no more.

A lot of designers become hot, attend every party, and then you don't hear about them again.

I'm not a one-hit wonder as some suggest. I've had a couple of hits, but still, all of my hits were in the '70s. There was pretty much nothing in the '80s, '90s, or in the first full decade into the next millennium.

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.

You're only as big as your last hit.

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?

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

Sometimes you gotta leave when you're on top.

You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.

When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not.

You've got to change with the public's taste.

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

The newspapers and magazines, the theaters and the social reform movements, are more and more made for a public which looks only to be entertained and which has lost the power of sustained attention.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

It isn't an easy thing to cater to a public that gets tired of anything in about three days.