RM Quotes

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.

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

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

In showbiz, so much success and fame comes your way and then it passes on to someone else.

I think it's a very ephemeral thing, what makes a show a success.

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

I wouldn't mind being popular in other ways, but not with music.

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

Nothing recedes like success.

Quest for popularity is probably a disqualification for greatness.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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.

Every phenom goes down one day.

If you're at the top, people worship you wherever you go. But when you're dying down, it's difficult to sell tickets!

I realize I lack popular recognition.

Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.