Fame Loss Quotes

I used to have only one name; it used to mean something.

How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.

It feels really strange when I walk by newsstands and I don't see any magazines with me in it!

If somebody tells you that after being champion you're not going to miss the attention, he's lying to you.

I've seen young actresses have major falls from their career, and that's just not what I want.

In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows that - but now I've said it, haven't I? I'm strictly a shower singer at the minute.

It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

I don't really miss the Hollywood lifestyle.

When I was little, my father was one of the biggest names in Hollywood. Suddenly - and how it happened to him was always a great mystery to me - he wasn't a star anymore; he was on the fringe. From the time I was 14, I was always conscious of a sense of worry, of terrific insecurity - agents, phony talk, the waits for the phone to ring.

The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't.

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognises because of a nose job.

One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

When I was writing my column, I would almost always be recognized when I was in a restaurant, even if I was reviewing it and had booked under a fake name, so free stuff would start coming out of the kitchen on a conveyer belt, fantastic wines would be opened at my table. Now I can't even get a reservation on the pizza joint on the corner.

Twenty-five years ago I couldn't walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don't ask me about my movies and they don't ask me about my salad dressing because they don't know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.

A lot of actors flame out.

I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.

I slowly became less famous and less successful. That was very difficult.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.

I'm not the entertainer anymore.