When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.
It's really important that young people realise very rarely do you become an overnight success.
Really, I've been working forever, just doing music, and then all of a sudden, out of the blue, everybody is just on it.
An important lesson: Things that look like an overnight success usually aren't.
'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.
'Doctor Who' would be overnight fame that would last for three years, and then what? I'm in this for the long term.
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.
In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.
It was like I was Hannah Montana! I was a normal girl from Pittsburgh one minute and then a pop star the next!
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.
Things happen overnight for some people, not everyone.
People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.
When I walked through the gate, Universal quit building actors. All of a sudden, I was doing leading roles. I knew I was a tyro, but they told me to shut up and act.
Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't know anyone in L.A.; I didn't have any reason to have been discovered. Nowadays, you have YouTube, and people are scouting more, but I really was plucked out of obscurity.
Everywhere you look, especially on TV, someone is promising to make you rich and famous.
'Mahadev' got me most recognition. But I have to say that post 'Kyunki'... I was offered everything under the sun. Being an outsider, who didn't have to work too hard, I was overwhelmed.
As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.
It took eight years for DDP Yoga to become an overnight sensation.
We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.
I want to be an artist that grows slowly. If you appear overnight, there's a chance that you will also just disappear overnight.
'Marvin Gaye' came about my first day in L.A. It was kind of crazy that that's my first song that I wrote and it blew up that much. What's crazy is the next day I wrote 'See You Again,' so that's pretty interesting. I was trying to prove myself as a songwriter.
Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.
I was just this kid from Colorado studying theater, and suddenly I was on a hit TV show.
These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
