Transient Fame Quotes

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

I'm very conscious and weary of the hype economy and the way people build things up just to tear them down.

The individual stats, that stuff is fun, but it doesn't last. Somebody else is gonna come along and break your records. But the memories that you take are forever.

I've been in the public eye for about 15 or 16 years and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.

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

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.

There were bigger and better players before me and there will be bigger and better after.

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.

A fan would get an autograph and that was that. If we didn't tour again for five years, we wouldn't remember them.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

A lot of sitcoms don't last more than four series. You could say it's mystic.

The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast.

One of the phenomenons of American political life is that it all stops one day. One day, you've got 200 reporters and cameras, and everybody is hanging on you. And three days later, you're alone. And it's quite a transition.

I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.

Baseball is going to end some day. I realize that as soon as you retire you know, people forget about you in this game fast! There's the next young guy coming up that's always better than you. So, for me, it's just about using baseball as a platform to do a lot of things.

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol must have started a lot of 15 minutes of fame.

Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters which strongly interest the passions, and engage universal attention. It is not difficult to obtain readers, when we discuss a question which every one is desirous to understand, which is debated in every assembly, and has divided the nation into parties; or when we display the faults or virtues of him whose public conduct has made almost every man his enemy or his friend.

Inevitably people will get tired of me. People get tired of everyone except Jimmy Stewart. I'm not saying Jimmy Stewart would get tired of me, I'm just saying people will never get tired of Jimmy Stewart.