Today, you can gain a bunch of followers doing a dance in a cute bikini, and suddenly, you're a superstar. Or you could just be a beautiful girl posting pictures of yourself and get discovered that way.
In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.
I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.
You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.
When I walked through the gate, Universal quit building actors. All of a sudden, I was doing leading roles. I knew I was a tyro, but they told me to shut up and act.
A lot of people think they can become world stars overnight.
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
When people are bothering you constantly when you're trying to do just a simple thing that humans do every day but they won't let you do it without bugging you about it, that was a hard thing. Because I became a movie star overnight. From a working actor and working writer to a movie star.
Nothing could prepare you for being instantly famous.
In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.
My success was pretty overnight.
Who needs to graduate from Central Saint Martins in London or New York's Fashion Institute of Technology when a homemade outfit can go viral on YouTube with millions of hits?
In this country we're just obsessed with making people celebrities before they've even done anything, which I think is just shocking.
Cocktail' happened overnight for me. I didn't have the time to think about it, I suddenly got into films without even realising what I was doing.
Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.
You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.
You can be known or be a star from anywhere - anywhere in the world.
On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.
These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you have TV show.
I got so famous with so many new people entering my life. You can imagine how it was for an 18-year-old who was playing effortlessly and savouring every moment of my success. I had lost all sense of reality.
Love Island' is for people who aren't celebrities, who've done nothing in their life and are trying to be someone and get something to be famous.
The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends.
