Cheryl Ladd 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.

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

I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 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.

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

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

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

A lot of people may know me for my music now. It took me almost 14 years to get where I am, and it was really hard.

Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn't happen overnight where you get an audition or even a callback and get the role. It takes time.

There's people that say “It's not fair You have all that stuff.” I wasn't born with it. It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you're new at this- and by “new at it.” I mean 15 years in, or even 20- you're just starting to grow traction. Young musicians believe they should be able to throw a band together and be famous, and anything that's in their way is unfair and evil. What are you, in your 20s, you picked up a guitar? Give it a minute.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

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

I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.

Lesson to would-be fame seekers: It's not really a new world when it comes to celebrity. There are no shortcuts. It's still talent, perseverance and hard work. Even the speed and reach of the Net can't create lasting value and income overnight.

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

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

I think people appreciate that I've been around so long, and I never gave up on myself and just kept grinding, and eventually I made it to the top.