Ellen Pompeo Quotes

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.

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 don't believe in stardom; it is like a relationship. Today it is with you, tomorrow it might go to someone else.

Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.

I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

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

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.

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

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

Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

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

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter..

... the populace is variable and inconstant, so that, if a reputation be not kept up, it quickly withers away.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.

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.

Anybody whose film becomes a hit is a superstar. Today there is somebody, and tomorrow there will be somebody else. No single woman or man has a monopoly for all time.

It's a difficult thing to be in fashion or popular - it's all so fickle.

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

Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

I feel like I wanna have a series of moments. It's scary when they say you're having a moment, because moments are momentary.