Yaphet Kotto Quotes

I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it.

As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles.

If I ever want to get back into coaching I should be calling teams they shouldn't be calling me. That's when you know you really want to do it.

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.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot of people want to see. And then they'll turn you lose and let you make what you want. And then maybe you can do some of the things that you want to do. But as a beginner, you haven't got a chance.

Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.

Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.

I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.

When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

I think you have to recognise where you are as a player. I knew I had to go out to learn - to sit around at Liverpool wasn't going to do me any good.

I stopped watching sports because I didn't want to watch someone running up and down the field making millions and I'm not doing anything about it. That methodology made me go harder and take control of my career.

Once I started advancing in my career, I stopped wanting to hide from my reality.

I'm here to take control of my career and take it to where I believe it should be.

What motivates me is not staying still. I want to be busy, and I think too many good actors are left by the wayside through no fault of their own, but because there aren't necessarily enough opportunities out there.

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.

Every day you don't do something, it makes it less likely that you will ever do something. So you've got to get started right away.

If my ambition was to stay a manager the rest of my life, then I'd probably follow what people think managers are supposed to be like, but my ambition was never to be a manager.

I've been managing myself for some time now, and after accomplishing many goals here in Brazil, I knew it was time to make new contacts and do bigger things on an international level.

My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have work for black women. But right now I don't know what's next. I hope that there are more opportunities to come my way.