Matthew Lillard Quotes

I've always been a person who is driven.

I'm motivated and driven, and I have been from a young age.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

When I see what I want, I do it.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

If I want something, I go after it.

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'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

If I want something, I go for it.

I've never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.

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 can't lay back and wait for somebody else to do it. And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem.

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future.

You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.

I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.

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

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

My problem is, whether it's for emotion or for the talents that a character has to have in a role, I find it very difficult to not take on a challenge. For instance, 'Phantom Of The Opera,' in truth, scared the crap out of me, but I wasn't going to walk away and say, 'I didn't do that because I didn't believe in myself.'

I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.

I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.