Unsustainable Success Quotes

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.

I'm very conscious and weary of the hype economy and the way people build things up just to tear them down.

One of the hazards of making a major discovery early in your career is the burden of expectation, not helped in my case by becoming a wife and mother soon afterwards. I'm sure some people think it was a flash in the pan.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'

We actors have a big problem. We have a lot of insecurity and we are fragile. We surround ourselves with people who praise our ego and lie to us... till that moment you realise that these people are not helping you get ahead.

You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.

Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

The perils of success at a young age is being afraid to make a mistake.

I have a very pessimistic view that every win takes you closer to a loss because no-one in the world can keep on winning forever.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

The success is too dearly bought.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

You just want fame so bad. You want success so bad. You just believe anybody who conjures up a pretty contract and they're telling you all these sweet nothings I guess.

People who are seriously damaged by sudden fame and notoriety have, in my experience, very low esteem at the root of their being.

Nothing fails like success.

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

I have some star status. But I don't have that sustained success rate.