Fame Impermanence Quotes

I'm a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will burst.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.

Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.

When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.

For every athlete, the roar of the crowd goes away, and we have to learn how to turn the page.

Since I remember still very clearly what it was like not being popular or in a successful band, I know that things go up and down, and you cannot expect this to be on the same trajectory forever. It won't be. Because even if you get to be the biggest band in the world, it's gonna change.

I knew that someday, I'd lose the fame. So, I have always kept in touch with my interests.

I've been on pilots. I've seen shows come and go. I know that this stuff is all very fleeting, so I try to keep it cool.

When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.

Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.

People are gonna get tired of Linda Perry the producer, but I will always be in the music business. And I will always be successful in it.

And music is kind of a - it's like a finicky industry to be in of course. Like, tastes change. You're hot one minute; you're not - you know, I've been through it quite a few times, like, on both sides of it.

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.