A Quote by Ben Lewin

I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success. — © Ben Lewin
I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.
People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.
Everybody wants the quick fix, but it doesn't happen overnight. You have to be willing to put it out there. I call it 'the secret to being an overnight success,' which means there really isn't a such thing as an overnight success. ! The secret is you work really hard for 10 years, and then you become an overnight success.
A lot of dudes have success, overnight success or one-year success but not many have ten, fifteen, twenty in this game so when you can do that is when I look up to you.
Sweet But Psycho' blew up pretty much overnight after my 10-year struggle. It's hilarious when people say it was overnight, because it was not overnight.
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
I was a 17-year overnight success really. I think I earned it.
Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.
I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.
People think I'm an overnight success. No. It's just that you all found me overnight.
Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.
It's so funny, this thing of 'overnight success.' I've been doing this for 20 years, but yes, sure, it happened overnight!
Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.
Failure turns into success. It looks like it happens overnight to other people, but it's just one person's determination to get past a certain goal. Everybody thinks it's an overnight success, but it's not. It's something someone has been working very, very hard on, and more than likely, has been too embarrassed to tell anybody. No one really wants to show other people their failures. They want to show their success.
You have to appreciate the slow grind because success is not going to happen overnight. It can happen overnight, but that's not my journey.
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.
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