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I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

Most people who have had big fads have turned out to be just like their products: one-shot deals.

You never know how long your fifteen minutes of fame is going to last.

The younger generation of performers really enjoy their success. Its like they know their moment is here right now and probably won't be here in a few years.

'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'

You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking.

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.

Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

Do you think I'm going to be one of those flash-in-the-pan actresses?

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways.

If you're in pop music, you've got to deal with the changing of the guard every few years. By the time the '70s arrived, I was well aware of the cyclical nature of the game. Pop music is a creature of the moment; it thrives on the mood of its time. Either you hook into that or you're not going to be part of it.

I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

I took off the makeup and stashed the crown, and now I was just another young woman out in the world. It's almost dizzying how fast the fame goes away - like a stage that turns dark at the end of a performance.

I think one of the reasons all the comics I worked with dropped off the log so early, and a lot of them did - Tony Hancock, Frankie, Sid James, it's dreadful really - was the stress. You can only be as good or better than the last show, and there's the permanent aggro of hoping you get the right writers and the right material.

In the entertainment industry, careers don't last very long - and online, careers last an even shorter amount of time.

I try not to think about the success, because it's pressure to continue making music.

I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'

I hate nothing more than feeling rushed to write a song or feeling like I have to write a song.

The way we like to make music is we'll announce a project when there are zero songs, and then we take that pressure and try to make an album really fast.

I'm scared of being a one-hit wonder because my second single has set the bar too high.

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

Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.

I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.

Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.