Ephemeral Popularity Quotes

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

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.

Of course, no single entertainment device can enjoy eternal popularity.

Fame is nothing but an empty name.

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

The trap is when you start to pay attention to that stuff and care, because in six months, they're going to be looking at someone else. You know how fickle everyone is. They love it, then they hate it, then they love it. So I'm going to enjoy it because it could be over at any minute.