Short-Lived Success Quotes

Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.

The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.

A lot of DJs don't realize they're here today and gone tomorrow. They're literally taking jets to every show. It's crazy how much money they're spending.

After I went on 'Drag Race,' I was allowed to do so many things. I was allowed to do theater, commercial work, television work, modeling, fashion design, and it was great. But the thing with reality television fame is that it's got a pretty quick expiration date.

Success is work hard and give 100% every single day because it will leave as quickly as it came.

If you want to become a myth, you had better die young.

I know how limited and how fleeting fame is, so I just try not to get excited about it, honestly.

A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.

Very often, actors have to face being rejected time and again, and we must remember that the red carpet lasts just a minute.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.

I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I don't want people to just remember me for one thing.

You never know when this can be gone. It's sad to say, but with all the injuries around the league, it can be gone in a blink of an eye.

One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make.

The attempt to combine wisdom with power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

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.'

There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven't got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday's event.

The Raspberries were together two years for one century. It was a very successful failure of a group.

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.

You can't plan success with a creative field. So I enjoy it while it's here, and I know it won't be forever. Maybe one day I'll have to go back to flipping burgers, but for now I'm going to enjoy the cool things.

In 2010, I was the star of a sitcom. It came and went pretty fast. But in the months from when I was cast in the sitcom through when it was done airing, my life did change remarkably.