Kate Nash Quotes

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.

I like people who genuinely are looking for a project and not a job.

I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started branching out from there.

You have to constantly be doing something and not just wait for someone to call you with an opportunity, you have to develop your own projects.

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 search for one's first professional job is not unlike a magical love potion: when one wants to fall in love with the next thing one sees, one generally does.

Jobs are for lazy people who don’t want to invest in themselves.

If there aren't roles you want to play, then you've kind of got to create them.

My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

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.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

The lack of available, good work inspires a lot of people to be self-creating.

I've been working since I was five!

Later on in life, I discovered that in order for me to be successful, I had to have a challenge. I can't do a nine to five job.

I have always been selling. I always had something going on. That was just my nature.

I'm an entrepreneur. I always have been. I am curious, and I enjoy solving problems.

I was scouted working at the register at McDonald's in Melbourne, Australia. I worked there as my first job, and a guy walked in and gave me his card. I was 16. I was skeptical, but I looked it up when I got home, and it was legitimate.

At Uber, we say, 'Always be hustling.' Even if you are an introvert and you haven't got hustle in you, you better get a co-founder who does. And if you haven't got enough hustle to find a co-founder who's got hustle, it's going to be tough. You've got to have a little hustle in you.