Demetri Martin Quotes

To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z.

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

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

I want to be around for a long time. I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.

Humility, far more than brilliance, makes for longevity in the speech writing line.

Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.

A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary.

If you work hard it's only a matter of time before things start to go right.

One bit of advice I can give people is to remember that anything worthwhile takes a long time.

Success doesn't happen overnight.

Some wonderful things have taken 10 years to make.

Success doesn't come instantly. Neither does the ability to lead.

In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

If you want success, you have to work hard at it and realize that it takes time; it doesn't come to you overnight.

All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.

Infinite patience produces immediate results.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

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

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.