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

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

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

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

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