Transient Popularity Quotes

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

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

If you're in pop music, you've got to deal with the changing of the guard every few years. By the time the '70s arrived, I was well aware of the cyclical nature of the game. Pop music is a creature of the moment; it thrives on the mood of its time. Either you hook into that or you're not going to be part of it.

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

It's a difficult thing to be in fashion or popular - it's all so fickle.

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

In the entertainment industry, careers don't last very long - and online, careers last an even shorter amount of time.

Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.

Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.

Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Acting is a general thing; it's not like being a primary artist like a painter or writer which stands the test of time. I don't think acting stands the test of time, but it can capture the mood of the moment, which is in itself very exciting, but it rarely lasts.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that's it, and somebody else come in.

Hopefully, I've established a career, but you can be a big sensation one day, and the next day everyone's going, 'Who? ... Who?'

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

Hot today, forgotten tomorrow. I'm not buying anything.

Most people who have had big fads have turned out to be just like their products: one-shot deals.

The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

No doubt there is a Scandinavian wave. I guess everybody is just surfing their wave until it breaks and hoping it won't be too soon.

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

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long.

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.

If you've been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who's in and who's out changes by the year. It's really a very fluid situation that requires that the person who is having the good luck now isn't having it a year or two from now.

It is a bit frustrating. Things come and go in television. At the moment they've gone.