Fame Decline Quotes

Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.

Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.

No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

One of my favorite L.A. movies is 'Ed Wood,' and it's about how Bela Lugosi went from being this movie star personality to living in a little bungalow with his cats in the valley where, if you walked by, you'd have no idea. He'd come out and get his paper, and you'd go, 'That guy looks familiar.'

When you leave the White House, you wonder if you’ll ever draw a crowd again.

I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.

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

I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.

It's sad to see boxers sometimes when they've come from these massive highs with thousands of people screaming for them. They're the best at what they do - then, that's it: stopped, finished.

I'm Liberace without a piano.

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

You leave a country, they stop playing you on the radio.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

I feel like every movie is definitely the last one that I've had my moment; that I'm going to be selling autographs at malls.

I've been around so long that I've seen rappers make it and plummet.

When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job.

You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do.

Every phenom goes down one day.

I had an initial wave of popularity that, in time, crashed, and I slowly became less popular and less successful, and I had to figure out who I was without those things.

When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was 40, nobody wanted me.

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.