Ben Lewin Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.

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

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

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.

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

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

You know, it's nice being an overnight success after 50 years.

I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.

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.

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

I've worked really hard to get to where I am. Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

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

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

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

I always thought, 'That's just the way you do it.' You work as hard as you can for as long as you can, and the small gains you make will eventually pay off.