Bishop Briggs Quotes

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

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

There are a lot of people who dream of overnight success, of being Brad Pitt getting discovered for 'Thelma and Louise,' but that doesn't always happen. I represent that stick-to-it-ness that it takes to build a career over time, guest spot by guest spot. Looking back from here, I wouldn't have wanted the journey to go any other way.

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.

There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.

There's no such thing as 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.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

You've got to have gumption. You've got to be willing to stand up on the stage for no money for ten years.

I worked every single night, not even caring if I got paid, to get myself known. Within a year I was on the Royal Variety Show and that was it.

The truth is that I don't work any harder than anyone else in the world. I don't work 18-hour days. I don't stay up until 4 in the morning trying to finish a line.

If you look at my career, it's been nothing but consistency.

I just wanted to perform all day, every day.

I've always said the same thing - I'm learning, I'm getting better and I'm loving playing in front of sell-out crowds.

If I can still sing and still perform to my satisfaction, I don't mind touring.

A lot of times, you see everyone's highlight reels because of social media. You don't know the work that went into getting to that point. This is something that's going to take time, hard work, and you have to be dedicated towards your craft.

Some wonderful things have taken 10 years to make.

That's what people don't understand: whatever you do in life, you have to be consistent at it because that's when you'll reap the rewards from it.

I've been going to school, did theater for a long time, been plugging away for 10, 15 years. I was told earlier in my career, it's all laying track... one day, all that track is going to come together in some way, and it has.

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

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.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption.

Only do acting, if you don't want to do anything else. And know that it's a tough journey with a lot of rejection along the way. You have to have a lot of self-belief.