Kay Cannon Quotes

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

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

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

I am not a passenger in anything I do. I am and always will be a leader.

I believe you have to make things happen.

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

You have to make it happen.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

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.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

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

The staging for 'Monsters' is all about me getting free. In the beginning I'm like tied, in a dark place... until I am scared no more, and I'm taking the lead of my life, I'm being the queen of my life, I'm ruling the world! In the end I'm taking a risk, but I'm taking the leap of faith.

Whatever I do, I like to be the one doing it. I don't just like to get someone in to run it and put a name to it.

You don't have to wait for anyone's approval to do things.

I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.

Creating my own roles, as an actor, is great. You're so at the mercy of other people, and you're waiting for a job. That's just a horrible way to live, so I just decided to take matters into my own hands, find my own projects, and create them myself, and then do other stuff that people might throw my way as well.

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

Be a doer and not a critic.

It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

I enjoy making the decisions.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.