Demetrius Shipp Jr. Quotes

Everybody has their due season. And it's all about what you do in your season.

I feel very privileged to do what I do, so I'm just going to keep working hard and enjoy every minute of it because it could be over just like that.

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

I never had worked in high fashion before, had never experienced it when I was a model before. I appreciate it, being able to work with such talented people; it feels like a gift now. I think for everyone everything happens at the right time, and this is my time.

I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success.

Timing in life is everything.

Timing in life is everything.

I thank God I didn't become successful until I was older.

The way I look at the world, if you can't find a way to get something good out of the experience, then you have lived an unhappy life. All the actors I have worked with, superstars or otherwise, I have enjoyed.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

I cherish every moment, because success can be taken right away from you.

I have stepped into a bigger league with 'Khamoshiyaan,' and I am grateful to Mahesh Bhatt sir. I am also grateful to myself for being patient.

Whether it's a show or an interview, the way I look at it is that one day people might not want to interview me. So I want to enjoy this ride while I can.

I don't regret the way I approached things, because otherwise I wouldn't have achieved what I did, but when I look back, I could have enjoyed things more.

There comes a point in an actor's life when they have to just lie back and let things fall into place.

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

While I'm here, I'm gonna milk it for all I can, so when I'm no longer hot - and I know that day is coming - I will step over here and enjoy everything I've created up to this point. The music is just opening all these doors, so I can relax.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.

Life is about timing.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.