Kate Moss Quotes

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

I'm glad I dropped out of high school, man. I wouldn't be where I'm at. I would have had a net. I'm glad I didn't have anything to fall back on, man, because that made me go for my dreams that much harder.

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

Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.

I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!

Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.

Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.

Nothing came to me overnight unlike many others in the industry.

It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.

It's been a long haul. It may seem to some people that have never heard of me, 'Oh she just popped up on the scene,' but I've been working on this for some time.

The thing that I appreciate so much about my career and journey is that I do believe everybody can relate to it. There were highs and lows, obviously, before I got to the NFL. And then I got there and won a championship.

I'm constantly working, and I've earned everything that I've been able to achieve on my own, and that's what being the eldest of 14 taught me.

In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.

I think we're all just doing our own thing and finding our own paths and I think we just work really hard. I don't personally know some of the Disney girls as well as I know some of the Nickelodeon girls, but I have run into them and talked to them and they're all really cool and I respect them and what they do and I'm just trying to do my own thing.

I think that it feels really good to be recognized in a sense of being nominated for Grammys and things like that, but part of it is, we spent a lot of time on our own making music: seven or eight years and nobody really paid attention. It feels good. We also learned to not pay too much attention to things like that, and I think it made us stronger.

I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up.

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.