Hidden Effort Quotes

Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.

An important lesson: Things that look like an overnight success usually aren't.

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

If you think about it - if you watch a gymnast compete, you don't see their training behind the scenes. You just see the competition. You see the final result when it's polished. And that is very much what people experience with concerts. They go to the concert. And they see the final version.

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

I'm the front man, I'm the man on camera, but there's a whole team beyond me.

When it looks at great accomplishments, the world, bent on simplifying its images, likes best to look at the dramatic, picturesquemoments experienced by its heroes.... But the no less creative years of preparation remain in the shadow.

Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.

There's a fashion for a macho style of filmmaking. How long can your longest take be? And shooting things in one shot. For me, if you can sort of disappear and make people feel that they are there, that involves massive amounts of work.

When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.

Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk.

They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

I tend to be that swimmer that doesn't look like she is trying, but is actually dying on the inside. It's a little bit unfortunate because people are, like, 'Can you just try harder?' I was, like, 'If you can see what's going on in my head right now, you wouldn't be telling me that.'

Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don't have to show that I am working very hard.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.

People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.

You think about acting kind of as an iceberg where you've got that 5% that you see... but in order to have that 5%... you have to have another 95%.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

I don't think a lot of people really know what goes into something that they see.

When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.

I think people think how I got work came easy. People assume that I was an overnight sensation, because they're just now hearing about me, or that everything happened very quickly.