Scott Rudin Quotes

Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.

Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

Honeymoons are great, but they don't last. And I think the same is true with success on the screen - today, I am all over the place; tomorrow, I may be gone - I may have to make room for someone else. So why make a big song and dance about it all?

Results come and go; tournaments come and go.

Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

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

As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.

Nothing prospers to the end.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

I cherish every moment, because success can be taken right away from you.

My mind has always kind of operated with this band like it's gonna be over tomorrow.

I think sometimes we get wrapped up in awards... ultimately, it's just a moment in time, and it passes.

Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.

Everything can be undone, including success.

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.

Just because we have success in the moment, it doesn't mean anything.

You win a while, and then it’s done - Your little winning streak.

Things go away and projects crumble and disappear, or you make your movie and it comes out and no one watches it.

And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.