Coco Rocha Quotes

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

I think that's the point of what we all should all be doing: trying to make the impossible possible.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

Every time, I try to make something different.

I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want to be the guy who gets really good at one thing and just does that over and over and over again.

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I'm trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I'll have another hour of stand-up material where I'll be able to go on the road and tour again.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.

It always helps to have someone who can say, No, we can do it faster this way, or We have to break the rules, even our own rules, to get things done.

It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business.

The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?

The thing I'm most proud of about - not all of our movies, but a lot of our movies - is that you might love 'em, you might hate 'em, but most of the time, they're trying to be different or trying new things, which I think is really important.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

Just make the comics you want to see, and people will notice.

The essence of my way of doing business is to not accept the traditional way things are done.

Somebody sold millions of record before. I want to do something that hasn't been done.

Life is short. Don't do the same thing everyone else is doing - that's such a herd mentality. And don't do something that's two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world.

Being from a small town, no one else was going to breathe life into my ideas other than me, so I had to go out there and do it.

Startups, by their nature, are entrepreneurial - testing new things, launching new products, and disrupting themselves. That's why you join a startup in the first place - to create, to stretch beyond your current capabilities, and to make an outsized impact.