Drag Race' has given many super-talented people 15 minutes of fame... Many don't strike while the iron's hot though and are only really seen again sitting at finales or reunions for the show.
Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.
You get x amount of years at the top… boybands are like buses - there's always another one coming along.
You step away from the public eye for too long, they don't care no more.
Sometimes I'll have a brief window of mini-fame thanks to 'Access Hollywood.' But it only lasts a couple of days, and then no one recognizes me anymore.
You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking.
'Doctor Who' would be overnight fame that would last for three years, and then what? I'm in this for the long term.
You shouldn't inflict yourself on the public when your fifteen minutes is up.
In the history of sport in general, people stick around. Look at Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn just continue on, Olympic cycle after Olympic cycle; that is why they are famous.
The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.
I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that 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.
You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.
"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then."
They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.
My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I have heard it said that the success of a work abroad is the best test of its enduring value. I doubt whether this is at all trustworthy; but judged by this standard my name ought to last for a few years.
Nobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air.
In the entertainment industry, careers don't last very long - and online, careers last an even shorter amount of time.
Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.
When I came out for the 25th anniversary of Raw, I got a great reaction, and it made me feel very good, but as amazing a moment as that was, I know, after two months, fans would want to move on.
Fame is short-lived, and you're the last to know when you are no longer hot.
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
I'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily.
Look, the fame rocket is only on the upward trajectory for a limited time.
There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
