Quotes About Fame

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick.

I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

I read all the reviews. I remember the first review I ever read about our band was, 'They'll be gone tomorrow; they'll be gone quicker than they came.'

Fame came at me a lot quicker and stronger than I imagined.

It is inevitable that popularity will fade. That's why I must always be prepared. I don't want a meteoric rise in popularity. I want to be an actor who can quickly get back on my feet after a fall. If I want to have a long-term career in acting, I must be careful about the choices I make.

I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.

Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

There's a lot of bands that blow up quickly, but then they die quickly. Longevity is the healthy thing; that's the pursuit.

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

The 'Arrow' thing happened really quickly.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

You learn very quickly what people are so enamored with, and it's not necessarily me.

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

It's funny how people fantasise about your life sometimes. But it's so much quieter than they think.

I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing.

There are a lot of Washingtons that have played football. I could just blend in more and carve out my own name quietly.

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.