Annie Murphy Quotes

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

Don't wait till you're older, or in some better job than you have now. Don't wait for anything. Don't wait till some magical...idea drops into your lap. That's not where ideas come from. Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

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.

No matter how commonplace or dull your first job's duties seem, chances are you can find something to do that others don't want to and make it your own.

Sitting on my butt waiting on opportunities won't do me any good.

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

Why I'm so stimulated by [producing] is it becomes more proactive. Instead of waiting around for a script to come in, or some movie trying to go. You're waiting around always for that opportunity, which is great, but I like to be a little bit more proactive. I'm a very action-oriented guy - I'm a doer. The company really became this spearhead for that sort of attitude, and so that, to me, was the most exciting part of it.

If you have time don't wait for time.

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

I had always wanted to do a collection of cartoons, but you have to wait until someone is actually interested.

I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.

When a new manager comes in, you need to show him what you can do, but that may mean waiting for your opportunity.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

I've learned over the years that the best way to develop as an artist is to make things. So I tell young artists it's not enough to be an actor anymore, you have to be a filmmaker/writer/director. There's no excuse for waiting around for a job. You have to be active and make things.

Think new thoughts. Grab life with both hands, take opportunities you have, & create the ones you need.

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.