Instant Success Quotes

You don't appreciate what you have when it all comes to you real quick. I went from nothing to everything all at once.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

You can become a star overnight, guys. You can be on the street walking one day, and you're on your way to the corner diner, and you had to hitch a ride to get there. And the next day, you can be a huge star, money coming at you from right and left. And you've got to know how to handle that situation.

When a player joins Real Madrid's first team, they're often under pressure to be an instant success. By joining Castilla, I had the chance to understand the club and get to know the players, the culture, the country and the language.

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

I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... I'd never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

That's the problem with our industry: patience. People want instant NBA stars, and that's not going to happen.

I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.

There's just a lot of really young, entitled people. I don't think a lot of these young people have to work very hard. They're found on YouTube and, boom, thrown into the studio, so they think they can get anything they want.

I went to the studio, and I freestyled 'Beautiful' in, like, an hour and a half, and I threw it up, and people were like, 'This song's gonna change your life.'

We live in such a self-gratifying nation, and everything is instantaneous.

The West is very impatient. You want overnight change.

If I were an actress today at the age of 18, I would never make it, because now our young actresses all seem to be very beautiful and very talented right away.

A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they're going to be famous, just like that.

Success comes but with time. People want to achieve things very quickly; they are not patient.

You're only one video away from going viral and changing your life.

Things happen overnight for some people, not everyone.

Everywhere you look, especially on TV, someone is promising to make you rich and famous.

As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.

I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a week and was like, 'Check out this song - what do you think?' That would be ideal. I would prefer telling people that I'm just truly talented.

Celebrity hits like a bomb.

A lot of people think they can become world stars overnight.

All Playboy bunnies were constantly reminded that the TV show was Hugh Hefner's show - our contributions were irrelevant. We were the decorative icing, not the cake. According to our boyfriend, he could have splashed any three blondes on-screen and found instant success.

You see kids leave drama school who are drop-dead gorgeous and they just go stratospheric instant'aneously.