Tom Noonan Quotes

I've been very fortunate throughout my career to fight for the best organizations in the world.

I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.

When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

My life is unrecognisable compared to what it was - 'Game of Thrones' has opened doors that were never there before. But it can be dangerous to see it in those terms, I think. It's best to take it as it comes and work as hard as you can, and hopefully the other things fall into place.

I ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.

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.

At the beginning of my career, it was very hard to go up. Now, it's very hard to stay on top. You have to stay there, and I want to stay there so badly. I'm still standing.

Every time I have stepped up a level, I wasn't expecting it to happen, but once it did, I just made sure I worked as hard as I possibly could to stay there.

I thought my first few jobs would just be off, off, off, off, off broadway. And by chance and how the world works, I ended up on a TV show instead.

I'm lucky because I have never been pigeonholed and the roles have kept on coming.

I'm glad to be a part of 'Botched' and I'm thankful for the opportunity.

My evolution came not as a plan but as opportunities came. People offer them when they see you're doing something well. It's up to you to recognize them, take them, and then dedicate yourself to them.

When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us.

The good thing about this Casino Royale thing, that I hope and pray, is that I'll have more opportunities. That roles will come up to me rather than going to the auditions. But I still have a lot of things to prove. I haven't, I think, shown all my talent.

For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.

A good role comes along, and a good role is a good role.

There is this idea in Hollywood, and I've seen it work for people, where the unspoken rule is 'Do two for them and one for yourself.' And that's kind of considered a fact. I've never really found that to be true for me. I've gotten more opportunities out of working on things I believed in than I ever did on things that weren't special to me.

You can bloom wherever you're planted, if you put enough effort into it.

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.

I want to win and I feel that pressure, but my career will not be a disaster if I do not win there. It is a dream to fulfill.

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

I want to work hard, and when good roles come along I don't want to pass them up.

If you look at the actual movies that I've done, the whole struggle is to get to that point, so it's not something that you just have so easy . . . But it's okay. It doesn't bother me. I've done okay so far.