Amanda Marshall Quotes

The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.

I lack confidence, but I've been so lucky the way jobs have come to me, and I'm so grateful for them. I know how many brilliant actors there are out there who aren't getting the chances. While the work is there, I will grab it with both hands. It could all end tomorrow. You never know what's around the corner.

Every time you're given a job, you're given a gift, and if you're flexible, you never know what's going to happen.

There really isn't a formula for success.

I wait for options, hoping that a space for a pass will appear at the last moment.

When I get out on the field, you see me laughing so much because it's a dream come true. A lot of people wish they could do what I do, or wish they had an opportunity to do what I do. But not everybody's granted opportunity. I was, so I'm taking full advantage of it.

When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist.

Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it.

I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed.

There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust.

I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything.

Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal.

I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.