Juliette Binoche Quotes

I've always made my opportunities, I've never been one to wait for them and sit around waiting for something to happen. I've always sought them out.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

Don't sit around and wait for the opportunities to come. You have to get up and make those opportunities come.

I'm always looking for opportunities, even when they're not offered to me. I will have no hesitation to pick up the phone and call a director or call a writer.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something.

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'

When I see what I want, I do it.

Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

If you don't go talk to your boss, if you don't go talk to your mentors, if you don't go talk to people who can influence where you want to be, then they don't know. And they're not mind readers.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.