Rapid Rise to Fame Quotes

I was thrown into the spotlight pretty quickly at UCLA.

People think I'm an overnight success. No. It's just that you all found me overnight.

I can't think of another actor who acquired stardom so quickly, who held it for such a short time, and then kept it for such a long time. James Dean became a star in one calendar year, and then he left us. But he's still being talked about, he's still being revered, he's still being iconized forty years later. I don't think there's another example like it in the entire history of movies.

I was an overnight sensation.

It's crazy how it is. I mean, I go from being not known to, you know, being so known in the tennis world, in Canada in general.

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

I went from not being known anywhere in the world to winning junior Wimbledon and six months later playing the Australian Open. I was a victim of my own success, really.

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against? I've had so much freedom, sometimes it was hard. My parents wanted to protect me, but they had no idea how to. I had to learn as I went and make my own mistakes. I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.

I think it's definitely hard for the people who just out of nowhere come in and they do really well and all of the sudden the spotlight is on them.