Michael McIntyre Quotes

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

If you actually want to be in the business, it's kind of cliche, but don't give up. If you've really wanted this your entire life, and you work hard enough to get it, if you don't give up, then you will definitely get there.

To become a superstar, it's not only the voice. You have to have all these things: talent, determination, be ready to work, ready to understand.

I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.

Failure turns into success. It looks like it happens overnight to other people, but it's just one person's determination to get past a certain goal. Everybody thinks it's an overnight success, but it's not. It's something someone has been working very, very hard on, and more than likely, has been too embarrassed to tell anybody. No one really wants to show other people their failures. They want to show their success.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.

I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field.

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

I tell young comics, 'Do you want this badly enough? It's there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I'm going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.'

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.

Don't expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: she's not the best singer in the world, but she's got where she has through hard work.

You never believe your own hype. As quick as somebody can be 'the guy' in Hollywood, he can be gone the next minute. For me, it's about doing great work. And then hopefully you keep working forever.

For aspiring actors out there, I would say stay focused and don't let anyone pull you away from your goals. Shoot for the stars so that if you ever fall short you can land on the clouds.

I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish.

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

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years.

I would like to instill in people just to work hard. As long as they keep at it, their dreams will happen.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.

If you really want it, you need to really work for it.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.