Sophie Kennedy Clark Quotes

I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.

If I don't get work, I'll create it.

When there is no work, I create my own.

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'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.

Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.

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

I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for somebody else to create my next job; I have the ability to basically write my own ticket.

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.

A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to 'TV Guide.' I knew how to make a presentation.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.

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

I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, and it may not, so I wanted to do something proactive. I've got a brain; I don't want to just sit at home - I want to do as much as I can.

From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.

At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

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

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

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

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

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand.