Leslie Odom Jr. Quotes

I've always felt you are only as good as your next album or next show. What you've done is done. When you get a gold record, you hang it on the wall, and then it's like, 'Yeah, next?'

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.

You're only as good as your last pass.

Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

It's a blessing and a curse when your first big public album does so well. 'Twentysomething' sold four million copies - I think we were hoping to sell 80,000. And it's still selling. In some ways, you'll always be defined by that.

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

I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right.

I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.

The entertainment industry and my place in it is a place where you burn brightly for as long as you can.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

I loved being on Broadway, but performing has become exhausting, and I just don't want to live in New York anymore. I'm just sick of the competition in New York, the feeling that I always have to rehearse to keep up my performance. I don't feel like rehearsing, even though it should be my favorite thing in the world to do.

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.

The idea of being a 'child star' always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that these things are kind of fleeting and that a lot of it didn't have to do with me: it had to do with my age; it had to do with whatever came to mind when people thought of a young internet sensation.

It's difficult to keep going the good results, to feel good every tournament, every year in row.

When you start to have success, people look at you differently and expect more from you. With that comes a lot of pressure to perform, so it can be a little overwhelming.

I didn't want to be one of these superstars that just come and then just disappear.

Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly ... you won't be doing this interview--you'll be interviewing the next guy.

The dramas that I worked on were successful, but not the movies. I still have many opportunities, and I will not be discouraged.

The Raspberries were together two years for one century. It was a very successful failure of a group.

I have some star status. But I don't have that sustained success rate.

I can't be an actress forever.

I think it's bad in a way for junior players and college players to feel they must be number one.

The problem is that right from the beginning, there was this whole pressure that I've had to make it big. I don't know if it's my fault or if someone else created this atmosphere around me, but it's been there.

I've said before that when you win, people think it's so easy, but it's not so easy to handle it, and probably I expect myself to always play so good.