Jenna Fischer Quotes

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

I'm constantly reminding myself that the world owes us nothing. We have to make our way and we have to work hard, persevere and make our own way in the world because the world isn't waiting for us, so let's let the world know we are here.

When people say to me: "Oh don't worry, if one door closes another one opens..." If one door closes for me, go through the window - I'm not interested in waiting around for people to give me opportunities. I try and make things happen and if I am given opportunities I take them and work harder.

Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.

You make your own luck by working hard, you know?

In order to be creatively satisfied and financially secure, you need to be a self-starter. I'm always assuming nothing's going to work out and I have to roll up my sleeves.

Nothing has been handed to me my entire life. You have to go there and take it. My mom taught me that.

I am happy to do anything that comes my way, and I will always do my best in anything that presents itself.

Work harder than everyone, be patient, and just know that if you're going to do something on your own, you're gonna have to feel some pain.

If you don't get something, don't spend your time wallowing. Just move on and then speak up for the next thing, and hope that you're involved in that.

I make my own opportunities no matter what.

The main quality I have is my mentality because I never gave up - I never, ever give up. I have been like that since I was young. I knew I had to take my chance when it came. Nobody gives you anything. You have to go and take it and this was the way I think.

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

I think a great entrepreneur is learning every day. An entrepreneur is somebody that doesn't take no for an answer - they're going to figure something out. They also take responsibility. They don't blame anybody else. And they're dreamers in one sense but they're also realistic and they take affordable steps when they can.

I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change.

Life helps those who help themselves.

People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I’m living proof that the “lucky breaks” theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck... The world is run by those who show up…not those who wait to be asked.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself

That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.