The newspapers are always reminding the public that I am an unpopular prime minister.
The majority of people don't even realise I was a tennis player. The older you get, the less people remember what you did before.
…Taft has reached and passed the nadir of his unpopularity.
As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.
You just worry that your time is up. It's not that people suddenly go, 'Oh, actually they're not very good any more,' but sometimes, well, your time is up. There are a lot of actors out there who just disappear.
If I was constantly on TV, people would get bored of me.
Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.
Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
There's nothing worse than Hollywood when you're on the way down. It has a way of telling you, 'Mamie, get out. You've had it.'
It's hard to be a national punch line unless lots of voters have soured on you.
Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
