I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.
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DAVE GOODWIN I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
MARY KARR Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.
MONTY HALL Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
ED GILLESPIE I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epi...
WENDY DAVIS Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.
LISA MORTON In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily ...
JAMES DYSON I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, ...
FELICITY HUFFMAN Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.
CARL LEWIS The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.
CINDY MARGOLIS I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that w...
JOHN STOSSEL Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight succ...
JULIE BENZ My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we'...
GROVER NORQUIST Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' st...
MO FARAH I'm like the Ben Affleck of crowd surfing.
ALEX TURNER I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.
GABRIEL MANN Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDre...
PATRICK DEMPSEY I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and...
J. D. SALINGER Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.
JASON CALACANIS I'm glad this whole success thing is happening now. I can't even imagine a 23-year-old Lesli...
LESLIE JONES Yes, I'm known as America's most genuine comedian.
EUGENE MIRMAN We were just delighted to have (Lewin).
GREG KAUFMAN I eat many different ice creams. I'm not an ice cream snob, although I do think Ben & Jerry&...
JERRY GREENFIELD I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
VAN CLIBURN What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the nex...
CHRISTOPHER LEE I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mix...
HUGH JACKMAN I know what you're doing, though."
"I'm glad somebody knows what I'm about, because I see...
GRACE BURROWES The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone...
POLLY BERGEN In my county alone, over 40 illegal immigrants are known to have died last year.
LAVOYGER DURHAM I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom,...
CHET ATKINS With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year...
NEIL GAIMAN I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference ...
JILL SCOTT Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome i...
LINDSAY LOHAN A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
MILES DAVIS Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
TERRY GILLIAM I'm Italian; I take my time. We're not really fast. We're very slow. I had my first chil...
MONICA BELLUCCI One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've eve...
SANDRA CISNEROS It's a little hard to believe 40-year-old men as high school students.
TIM VAN PATTEN As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn i...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE I'm known up there as the guy from Frog Jump. And it's a good thing.
STEPHEN FINCHER When I get to 40, I'm going to re-evaluate everything and then go from there. Because when I get...
JASON DAY I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success.
LIL WAYNE I want to burn as a beacon of possibility. I don't want nobody to misconstrue the commercial suc...
CEELO GREEN If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as ...
NEILL BLOMKAMP What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 year...
RANDY NEWMAN It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
EDDIE CANTOR Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!
NATHAN LANE Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.
MARISKA HARGITAY I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofba...
DUFF GOLDMAN I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
IAN AXEL You want to be excited about what you're doing. So whenever I get tired, I think, 'Would ten...
ADAM DEVINE How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
VALENTINO ROSSI I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I'm having fun. I'm just not having as much fun as people ma...
HARRY STYLES Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded, 'I'm producing it...
TOM HOLLANDER I'm far from being reclusive. I have 30- or 40-year friendships that I prefer to meeting new peo...
KIRK KERKORIAN I'm very proud that 40 sheriffs have endorsed me.
RICK SCOTT I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I gu...
TIM CONWAY Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I sti...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholi...
CHARLIE SHEEN I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Str...
TARON EGERTON Diesel is up about 40 cents over what we paid last year,
ANNE MORGAN I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed.
JERI RYAN I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronom...
GRANT ACHATZ I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'To...
CHER Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
TAHAR RAHIM I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a pr...
WANDA SYKES A wise man once told me: an overnight success takes 10 years. I might not have 10 Years; I may have ...
SCOTTIE SOMERS I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.
KEVIN HART After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, ...
ANNA QUINDLEN It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
EDDIE CANTOR It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
EDDY CANTOR An overnight success takes years to achieve its goal.
STEVEN LAWRENCE HILL, SR. Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
MORRISSEY What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see th...
PEYTON REED My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventee...
ADRIEN BRODY I've paid my dues. It wasn't overnight success. I went to tons of casting calls and audition...
MADCHEN AMICK If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancer...
ANN ROMNEY I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'...
AARON TVEIT I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? An...
BARBARA EHRENREICH You don't replace that kind of talent overnight, but I do feel like we're as athletic as last year a...
BRUCE MILLER A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom,...
CHET ATKINS I think if I'm 40 and I don't have any kids and I'm not married, I would have a baby art...
KIM KARDASHIAN It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 yea...
MACKLEMORE I'm blessed with the fact that I'm a fighter. I've always known life was meant to be joy...
PATTIE BOYD I was on a very bumpy plane ride, an overnight flight. I was so miserable, and I pulled out 'Dav...
JENNIFER EGAN Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that'...
TOM PETTY I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.
EVA GABOR I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have chi...
DAPHNE ZUNIGA “Years of diligent work have led to my overnight success”
JEFF KRANTZ One of the really amazing things about the Lusitania saga was that, at the time, there existed in th...
ERIK LARSON I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'...
MACAULAY CULKIN I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it...
DUSTIN LYNCH Ice cold failure is the first step toward the heated moments known as success.
JEFFREY LEONARD I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.
KING TUFF Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-...
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BEN HECHT The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life...
BEN SWEETLAND When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to...
BEN JONSON Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JOHNSON They that know no evil will suspect none.
BEN JONSON As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
BEN HOGAN