Kate del Castillo Quotes

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.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

I have to create opportunities for myself. But the thing I really have learned is that you gain nothing from sitting around waiting for the phone to ring - you have to do it for yourself.

At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

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.

I definitely feel like I'm at that point where it's nice to not have to sit at home and wait to be invited to the party, but to be creating work for yourself.

You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

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.

The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.

I'm going to create my own opportunities. If I can't find the roles I want, I'll just make them.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

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.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

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

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Don't wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it.

Every person who ever had a plan to do anything, and went and did it, or who laid his plan before others, and won their co-operation to do it with him, without going to external authorities to please do the thing for them, was a direct actionist.

I think that I am lucky and blessed to have the job that I have, and I am trying to create longevity. If that means that I transition into different things at different points in my life, then that's fine. I also believe that if doors don't open, make new doors, so I've also started producing quite a bit of things.

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