Jordan Gavaris Quotes

Just because you get a show and it gets on the air doesn't mean jack. It certainly means that you'll be considered for stuff, but you've got to fight and claw to get every job.

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.

I just want to fight the best.

I want to have a chance to contend.

I'm in this sport to change my life. I'm in this sport to change my parents' lives and the loved ones around me. That's really what I care about. And I can't do that if they keep putting me on these prelims.

I've had close chances of success, and sometimes politics and people don't work out.

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.

The best people know that they should join a rocketship.

If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.

Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.

The thing I always say is that I wasn't going out reaching for roles, I wasn't fighting for roles - people came to me. They always came to me.

Stay in your lane. If you're good enough, people will move to you.

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

However well I return, opportunities will probably be few and far and I need to be ruthless.

Something I don't like seeing in other people is naked ambition, when somebody is really pushing hard to get to where they want to be. That's the way I look at that word - like you must be stepping on someone to get there. And I've never been comfortable with that.

I wanted to be a success in radio. There was no way it was ever gonna happen if I stayed where I was born. It was not possible. Nothing against where I was born. Nothing against the people there. It just wasn't possible.

Well, some people create their own opportunities; others go where opportunities are the greatest; others fail to recognize opportunity when they are face to face with it.

I had no inkling I was going to run into this kind of luck I experienced. It's all happened and it's all turned my life around overnight; opportunities have knocked on my door and I'm just making use of them. I don't want to do anything and everything. I want to be a brand that every time I leverage my name I want people to feel sure that it's going to be something good - so whether it be my movies, my perfume, my restaurant, my musical, it'll be good work, good food and good everything.

Like it or not, life is a series of competitions.

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.