A'Lelia Bundles 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.

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.

Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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

So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.

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

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.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

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

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

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

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Don't assume that opportunity will come to you. Put yourself forward when there is an opportunity.

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.

Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

I believe you have to make things happen.

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.

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