Jermaine Fowler Quotes

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.

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

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

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

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

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

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

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.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

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 would say to someone, 'Make your own stuff sooner.' Also, it's OK to say no to something if it doesn't feel right.

I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Every person who ever had a plan to do anything, and went and did it, or who laid his plan before others, and won their co-operation to do it with him, without going to external authorities to please do the thing for them, was a direct actionist.

We can and we will solve our problems for ourselves. We know how. We can, and we will.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That's it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

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.

I am a very driven and hardworking person, and I am independent, and I feel that I have really good instincts.

I know what to do to go for it and just take the game in my hands.

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