Maria Menounos Quotes

Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

I'm in this sport to change my life. I'm in this sport to change my parents' lives and the loved ones around me. That's really what I care about. And I can't do that if they keep putting me on these prelims.

I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid years. If I had started ten years later, or ten years sooner, everything could have happened sooner, obviously. But if I had started fifteen years later? I don't know.

Success to me was getting out of that contract in one piece.

My three wishes are just be respected out the game. I want respect from everybody. And just make a successful clothing line and company. I'm not going to put a number on it. Just to have a great career.

I think the older that I'm getting, the more I'm understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I'm directing films and I'm getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works.

If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.

I expect if you are going to come out of the shadows, then you're going to want to have some type of hope in the future that you're going to improve your life and, yes, accomplish that American Dream.

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.

Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I've become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.

I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

'Mad Men' has been my big break. I'm beyond thrilled.

I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record.

I make a good living doing what I do.

Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity.

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

I am very lucky to have the opportunity to travel to so many amazing destinations for work!

Work is life. Work is opportunity.

But as far as, for I think it will be amazing you know where I find myself years from now because of this film. It's just amazing, I think everybody's going to kind of know this film and because of it, me. So I you know it's crazy.

Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now.

'The Cut' is going to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime and help that person achieve his or her dreams.