Marti Noxon Quotes

It's really about making opportunities for yourself and connecting with people on a more-than-normal level. That opens doors. You never know if the caterer's brother is someone. You don't know who someone is having dinner with that night. So being a nice person and touching people creates opportunity.

I've always known of ROH and have worked with a lot of the workers there, but they've never reached out to me. It's just never happened. But I'm always open to everything.

I'm always fascinated by the 'who would you like to work with' question. I've never really had an answer; it only really comes as you work with them.

Working with Robert Redford would be an unbelievable dream come true.

The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

I work a lot, and it's kind of like, you meet people, and you just click. It's not like I'm looking at something and thinking: 'South Park' - how do I get on that?' I just became friends with those guys first. They're nice guys.

The great thing about being in this business is that you meet people, and I met Sally Struthers.

People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand, with Paul Newman, with Al Pacino, with Sally Field, Jane Fonda, you work with all these people. Isn't this a problem? And it isn't a problem at all. It's terrific. It's great fun. And I don't know what the answer is.

I got a call from my manager saying, 'Howie Mandel wants to talk to you.' And I'm a comic - big fan of all he's done. He was pitching me 'Caraoke Showdown', and I was just excited about it.

I've done so many movies and TV that you get to be friends with everyone.

Eminem heard my music, and he didn't wanna take a meeting with me.

Mac Miller is my best friend in the industry.

I had best friends who were in the industry, and I'm like, it's cool if you get a job, and I'm happy.

Meryl Streep is awesome. I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable. Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's really funny.

One of the best pieces of wisdom I ever got is you work because you work, meaning you work because you're saying yes to things, and you're connecting with people.

I think whether you're old or young, we're all trying to do the same thing, and it's random who we click with. Ideally, you'd want to collaborate with a Christopher Nolan or somebody like that, starting out, and build those friendships.

When I first started out, they were like, 'Is there anybody that you like that you want to work with, and we'll see what we can do?' And I went, 'I like Malay,' who's Frank Ocean's producer, and they were like, 'Not going to happen.' It did seem so, like, high-in-the-sky sort of thing, do you know what I mean? It still does, that it happened.

Robert De Niro... I had a chance to meet him, and I hope to get to work with him one day.

I'm glad that so many directors are keen to work with me.

I had always wanted to make music on a big scale but never knew how it was going happen - until I saw a band in Oslo called Bridges. I was stunned. They had everything. The only thing they didn't have was me. I knew I needed to join, not for my own sake but for the band's. I knew I was a necessary ingredient.

Someone tried to introduce me to Michael Bloomberg, but I declined.

I was looking forward to knowing Shah Rukh and get to know how he works, what is his process like and how he is as a person. There are millions like me who dream about working with him some day. His film 'Baazigar' really inspired me.

I want to go a team where it'll be challenging for me.