Laura Benanti Quotes

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of.

We are all the writer-director-star-producer of our own life. We see life through our own eyes.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

The gods help them that help themselves.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

You have to work on your own thing. You have to work on yourself, and you have to bring something to the game.

There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that's it.

If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.

I want people to see that you don't need to rely on other people to make your dreams happen: you have to grab them yourself.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

You don't wait for somebody to give you something. Then it's not going to happen.

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.