Stacey Abrams Quotes

If I want something, I go after it.

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

I just always wanted to stay busy.

I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

I'm an energetic person. I work hard.

I'm not going to sit on the couch in my house and expect everything to come, I know that I must continue to work hard.

But I am not the sort of person who would go and seek work. I believe that if I do my job well work will come to me.

I'm always looking for opportunities, even when they're not offered to me. I will have no hesitation to pick up the phone and call a director or call a writer.

My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'

When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.

When I see what I want, I do it.

I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I've always been very self-motivated.

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.

My father has always been such a doer.

The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an active, assertive approach to life.

Some people say I'm a young man in a hurry. Well, guess what: they're right.

I like to work and am a focused person.