These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.
If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.
Fame is short-lived, and you're the last to know when you are no longer hot.
In a business that's driven purely by economics, the fact that one or two unique shows happen to get on and reach a public for a brief time doesn't constitute a trend.
There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.
Sometimes people get in position where they get in a big movie and overplay their hand. What that huge check does is put a target on an actor's back.
Jumping on something too fast can be a mistake. Tae Bo was once the latest and greatest craze, but where is it now?
If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
