Fame Cycle Quotes

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

You get x amount of years at the top… boybands are like buses - there's always another one coming along.

After I went on 'Drag Race,' I was allowed to do so many things. I was allowed to do theater, commercial work, television work, modeling, fashion design, and it was great. But the thing with reality television fame is that it's got a pretty quick expiration date.

As with many pop acts, your shelf life isn't that great, we peaked with our first album.

I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it'll recede. In fact, I know it will. That's life on Planet Earth. And I'm okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?

There definitely is exposure in reality shows, but the exposure will basically get you more reality shows.

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

Every band runs its course.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

I don't want to have that thing where I make an album and then I'm super-constantly present in everyone's life for three years, and then gone for the next three.

Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.

Even if you're doing a film, you're in the news while the shooting is on and during promotions. But once it's over, the limelight fades away, and you wait for something better to come your way.

Look, the fame rocket is only on the upward trajectory for a limited time.

Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

Every three or four years, I'm hot again.

One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

I grew up in this industry. I've seen fame up close.

The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.