Heather Graham Quotes

I would say if you do have ambitions, don't just wait around. Go out and make yourself as well-qualified as possible so you can take that rare opportunity when it comes along.

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

I've always looked for challenges, and I have found plenty.

The way I look at it is I try to take advantage of every opportunity I've got.

I believe in following opportunities.

Every time I see a certain room to grow, or a new opportunity to advance further, I go out and take it.

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

I would love to stay at SNL forever. But you can't stay in the same place. People think you're a loser.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

You take on what's right in front of you. You want to do the best you can with the opportunities that you have.

I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.

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.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

If there are opportunities, seize them and be prepared for them, and be the best, if that's what it takes. If you have to be extraordinary, then be extraordinary.

Get your education, and if you see small opportunities, take them. Each one could be a stepping stone to something bigger.

Some people just look at opportunities and say, 'Maybe something better might come along; let's wait and see.' But you don't wait. You just grab it and go after it.

I got a lot of opportunities and I was able to make the best of them.

I'm open to any opportunity that challenges me.

I know opportunities will come my way.

My main advice is, if it's something you really want to do, then just go for it.

Any time I see an opportunity to get ahead, I take it.

I just have to make sure that, whenever an opportunity arises, I keep taking them.

There's some days you start to think, 'When is my chance going to come?' As a professional, you always have that at the back of your mind.