Overnight Quotes

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.

It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.

I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight.

I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

I was an overnight sensation.

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years.

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

Overnight I became a cottage industry.

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.