When Guante started, they thought he'd be like popcorn, one of the most popular things around.
I think 'Teenage Wasteland' was one of those cult hits like 'My So-Called Life', something that came along and got a lot of viewers and then somehow fell into a bad timeslot that nobody ever watched, and then the network pulled the plug prematurely.
Andy Warhol said that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Facebook is exactly like that except you're not really famous and your 15 minutes goes on forever.
There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.
Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.
When I was 14, I was on the cover of 'Bop' and 'Tiger Beat.' Every two months, I would see a new kid's face, and I remember saying, 'This is not something that lasts very long.'
The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.
The mainstream is very fickle. If you're hot, they'll mess with you. If you're not, it's out of there.
It's a difficult thing to be in fashion or popular - it's all so fickle.
I never wanted to be flavour of the month.
Everybody likes the new guy. Being the new guy is cool. But then when you're there for a couple months, you're just the cool guy. I think I'm just the cool guy.
Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we're Thanksgiving turkeys.
Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.
A lot of bands, they'll try to jump on the bandwagon or the fad or the fashion, and they'll skyrocket, have this quick overnight fame. But as soon as that fad or fashion changes, they'll go out with it.
Right now I'm in 'Twilight' and I go around to signings and there are people screaming and crying, and it's so surreal. I know that when this is over in a month or two and whenever 'Twilight's no longer relevant, that doesn't live on for me. It's because of this. It's not very often that this happens for people.
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.
Hopefully, I've established a career, but you can be a big sensation one day, and the next day everyone's going, 'Who? ... Who?'
You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.
The idea of being a 'child star' always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that these things are kind of fleeting and that a lot of it didn't have to do with me: it had to do with my age; it had to do with whatever came to mind when people thought of a young internet sensation.
Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.
How many other opinions, as universally prevailing and as much respected, will … pass away?
