Steve Southerland Quotes

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

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

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

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.

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

To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.

I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.

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.

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

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

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.

It's not really a big fight to get that time to run. When you want something, then you go get it.

It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what at the end of the day defines us.

I want to encourage young people to get up off the sofa and get out there - as long as you want something hard enough, you can do it.

If you really are passionate about it, you're just going to find a way to make it happen.

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

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.