Parvathy Quotes

When there is no work, I create my own.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

I never got a job I didn't create for myself.

If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I take my drive from my mother and my practicality from my father.

So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There's always a way of doing it; you've just got to find it.

I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something.

I did all kinds of things as a young person to try to make money. I had a chicken operation - I sold chickens. I can remember going to high school football games as a ten-year-old and gathering Coca-Cola bottles, 'cause you'd turn them in and get a nickel. I wanted not to remain idle.

I guess I've just always had an entrepreneurial spirit.

Anyone, if he has a will and basic knowledge, can create something substantial.

I figured out quick I had to write my own ticket. I realized I could tell stories and make money from it.

Instead of waiting around for someone to give you a job, you have to go and create work for yourself. It took me a while to figure that out for myself.

People are out there looking for jobs and realizing that they have to look within to do and create what the new and next thing will be. They can't rely anymore on what was usually given to them.

Bill Hewlett and I were brought up in the Depression. We weren't interested in the idea of making any money. Our idea was if you couldn't find a job, you'd make one for yourself.

Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.

When you're a self-made man, you start very early in life. In my case it was at 9 years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited.

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

My goal with our American Made program is to inspire people of all ages to become 'doers,' whether it's them learning how to make an easy weekday dinner or starting their own business.

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

If I need something, I'll invent it.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

If there aren't roles you want to play, then you've kind of got to create them.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'