Mark Duplass Quotes

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

I want people to see that you don't need to rely on other people to make your dreams happen: you have to grab them yourself.

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

I got tired of asking people to do stuff and waiting on results, so I just took it into my own hands.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

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

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself.

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Do everything yourself.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.

Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

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

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.