Shameik Moore Quotes

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.

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

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.

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

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

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.

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

If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something.

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

Drag was always looked at as a stepchild, and I wasn't willing to sit at the kid's table anymore so I took what's mine. You can't depend on other people to give you what you want; you have to take it.

I started posting covers online and having this crazy determination about what I wanted to do and just went for it. I was like, 'Okay, no one else can create my future for me, and no one can get what I want for me, so I have to go out and get it myself.'

You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.

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.

I've always been taught to never wait for somebody to give me the opportunity, but to create opportunity for myself.

In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.

I used to be bound by people who placed limits on what they thought I could do. Through that, I learned that if you want something, you have to be the one to go out and do it. If you don't ask for something, you're not going to get it.

If you need to pursue your interests, do not expect anyone else to do it for you.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.

The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

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.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.