Scott Eastwood Quotes

I've spent my life supporting myself.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

I wouldn't be where I am right now, and have the right work ethic and discipline, if it weren't for all the indie films I did. We weren't pampered and were pretty much on our own.

I've never been spoon-fed for my whole career, I have always done it the hard way as a player and a manager.

I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself.

I've worked hard for my life. No one gave me anything.

I ain't follow nobody path; I did it my own way. It's just grindin', ya feel me? You just gotta grind.

I have brought up my kids single-handedly. So a strenuous routine is something I thrive on, not shy away from.

One thing that was drummed into me when I was younger is that you have to make your own way in life, that you mustn't expect anyone else to support you.

Nobody ever gave me anything. Everything I got I had to work for.

I don't mind travelling. I'm independent, so I gotta get on the grind.

You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me.

I'm constantly reminding myself that the world owes us nothing. We have to make our way and we have to work hard, persevere and make our own way in the world because the world isn't waiting for us, so let's let the world know we are here.

When people say to me: "Oh don't worry, if one door closes another one opens..." If one door closes for me, go through the window - I'm not interested in waiting around for people to give me opportunities. I try and make things happen and if I am given opportunities I take them and work harder.

I don't know how to get anything done except getting on my knees and pleading for help and then getting on my feet and going to work.

I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible — I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical.

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

My parents have worked their asses off their whole entire lives, they still do, and I never felt like anything would be handed to me. I never felt sorry for myself. I felt like, "Wow, this is incredible. I'm able to do this for myself." I think once you have that sense of empowerment at a young age and you allow your children to have that empowerment, it will fuel them for a lifetime.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn't always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no.