Katie Aselton Quotes

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Sometimes you have to create your own chance.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Be a creator, not just sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone to call you into the game or call our number.

I definitely feel like I'm at that point where it's nice to not have to sit at home and wait to be invited to the party, but to be creating work for yourself.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

I believe you have to make things happen.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something.

I've always made my opportunities, I've never been one to wait for them and sit around waiting for something to happen. I've always sought them out.

You don't know when things are going to happen, so I don't think you should be waiting around for them, so I'm interested in making stuff and being in that stuff - that's what my focus is.

Don't sit around and wait for the opportunities to come. You have to get up and make those opportunities come.

Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably.

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.