People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.
Opportunity does not always knock twice. You have to make some of your own opportunities and you have to go in and grab those.
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.
Sometimes you don't get in through the front door. Sometimes you don't get in through the back. Sometimes you got to climb through the window. That doesn't mean the opportunity wasn't there. There's a way; you've just got to find it.
When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to be had. If you have an idea, do it.
If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened.
I just got tired of waiting for things to happen through other people when so many other people are taking chances on following their dreams.
I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.
Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.
I'm in a 'I can do whatever' phase. I'm taking this '106 & Park' opportunity into full force. I'm really focused on doing my best with it. This is my 'Fresh Prince' moment. I want to be the black Ryan Seacrest of film, TV, and more.
Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!
Sitting on my butt waiting on opportunities won't do me any good.
