Kelly Jones Quotes

I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think that's good for me because I really got to take my time.

A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.

I was an overnight sensation.

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.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.

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

I think it's definitely hard for the people who just out of nowhere come in and they do really well and all of the sudden the spotlight is on them.

I know it wasn't like a meteoric rise, it was not overnight success. Nobody watched my movie, fell in love and said 'I'm her biggest fan.' People took time to warm up to me.

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

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.

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

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

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.

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

I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.

It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.

I went from being 'Mario who?' to 'Mario baby!

Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.