Robert Ripley Quotes

It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

When you get hard work you get success, and we put a lot of years into it.

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

I have struggled hard to attain this fame.

Actors who are not accepted are the ones who have to put in the extra effort to get somewhere in their careers. But once you achieve that, everything becomes easier.

It's a long road of paying your dues. Each and every person that's in this business has to go down that road. Some people may not have to. Some people may be given that road instantly because of who they are.

It's not an overnight thing. I can legitimately say I've been working my ass off for a long time and the fact that I'm getting this concert movie is perfect because it's coming at just the right time in my life.

Even after I got some recognition and success, I still had to work hard and prove myself.

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

You work really hard on something, and if you're lucky, you get a break.

Twice is a group with nine members who have all struggled in their own way to get where they are. We know we are so lucky to have the awards we've won, and to be a well-known group.

People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

Success always demands a greater effort.

When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well.

My music career has been very rewarding, but success never came easily.

There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

Hard work is the price we must pay for success

Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.

I didn't have nothing handed to me. It's a hard, long road getting to where I'm at. And I think the fans that have been down with me for a long time, they see that. They've been seeing me clawing my way to try to get to the top.