Cynthia Heimel Quotes

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

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.

It's a tough world. One moment, you're the hottest thing; there aren't enough hours in the day - you can barely catch your breath. The next moment, it's all about how many Instagram followers you have.

Acting is like a snowstorm or perhaps a large empty vacuum. I'm not deluded by the fact that I'm getting all these offers for work, I'm very happy about it, but I know also that there is the other side and who knows, next year, they may not offer me anything. You never know.

To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've learned not to build my expectations.

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?

I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who's living them? You don't play characters that are celebrities - you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank's blocked.

It's feast or famine in showbiz.

In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.

You can be really hot one minute, the next minute be unemployed.

What I didn't realize is, getting out to L.A., you realize how normal it is, especially if you go eat or have dinner in West Hollywood: kind of everybody is somebody out there.

In showbiz one minute you're up there making thousands of people laugh, next minute you're picking up toffees, you know it's real life.

Not all change and disruption succeeds, to be sure.

LA is the only place where people know my name and still walk up to me and ask it. And I think that was really representative of a lot of the transplant people in LA. I just found everything so phoney.

I love this business. Here today, gone, gone tomorrow. I was real gone for a while.

The illusion when things are going your way is that it's gonna just keep going. But it never does.

Football is a funny game. Today, you are zero; tomorrow, you are a hero.

The very nature of acting is one minute you're up and the next you're down; one minute you're in favour and the next you're forgotten. You go away and you come back again.

Popularity is a bubble. It's a mountain: you can go up really hard but walk down really fast.

That worried me early on in my career - that I would change. If I went to New York or Los Angeles that I would become somebody I wouldn't like. That person that gets a big head and starts thinking they're more special than anyone else. I never wanted to be that person.

L.A. may be easy for the beautiful because it's the land of the beautiful.

Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable.

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.