In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.
Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.
In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.
People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.
Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.
Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.
I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking.
Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
If you're famous for being famous, that's usually a four-year career.
You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.
I woke up famous for about a minute, then stopped being famous again.
A lot of designers become hot, attend every party, and then you don't hear about them again.
In America, there's this type of expectation of just-add-water celebrity, this type of, "Of course you found me; we're all going to be famous for 15 minutes," sort of Paris-Hilton-ization of society.
I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.