Joel Edgerton Quotes

Sometimes you have to create your own chance.

If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to be had. If you have an idea, do it.

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

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

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

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

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

If you sit around and wait for things to happen, they're not going to happen the way you want.

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.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

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.

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

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

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.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

Think new thoughts. Grab life with both hands, take opportunities you have, & create the ones you need.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

You have to make it happen.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.