Only the film industry can make you an overnight success. Unlike other jobs where you have to work your way up, here you can reach dizzying heights of fame instantly.

In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

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

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

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