Ashley Madekwe Quotes

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

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.

I never had a single big break - because few do online.

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.

It's really important that young people realise very rarely do you become an overnight success.

Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.

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

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work.

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.

Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing and the attitude we had, we knew we'd be at the bottom and have to work our way up.

I think, in a career, you have several breaks that lead to a big break. Small things here and there all add up to cracking away at the dam. Then the dam breaks.

My sister was cute, she said, 'Oh my gosh, you're an overnight success.' 'Oh,' I said, 'this is the longest night.' I've been at it since 1982.

Everyone sees the glory moments, but they don't see what happens behind the scenes.

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

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

There are no quick wins in business - it takes years to become an overnight success.

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

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.

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

I started at the bottom and worked my way up. I think that shows hard work pays off. A good thing takes a while.

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.

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.