I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES When I see something, I go for it. JACKEE HARRY It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l... LAURE96 I was so over crying. KIERA CASS To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it. DEYTH BANGER Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in t... KENDALL JENNER I just have work to do; I just do it. IAN MACKAYE Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ... LAILAH GIFTYAKITA dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i... ANON QUOTER If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you. Either you just let the grudge go, or mak... TOBA BETA Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL If it’s history, let it be history. BEN TOLOSA Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied. HODA KOTB Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If ... PADMA LAKSHMI I feel like I'm doing something in Atlanta that nobody ever did as far as rap. If it happens to ... NAYVADIUS CASH When that opportunity came (to go to Arkansas), I just wanted to look at it, ... They had approached... GEORGE PUGH There's doubt in trying. Just do it or stop thinking. TOBA BETA You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi... JOHN GREEN I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many yea... MATT DAMON I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it. BRION JAMES We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT I've always wanted to play college hockey. Since the day I started, just watching hockey and that le... JAMI KLAGOS Well, the first and only time I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn'... CHANNING TATUM I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in t... J.K. ROWLING You will always have ups and downs in your life and your career, but just stay positive and go for i... ANGELIQUE KERBER I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures tha... JAMES STEWART I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play t... KATE THOMPSON When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes th... MOTHER TERESA I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiin... RANDY COUTURE I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, m... DAVID BOWIE I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction - I was bored! ... LIAM CUNNINGHAM I just got addicted to getting better. My coach gave me a goal to get a tip dunk in a game - you kno... STEVEN ADAMS What is worse, I leave it. What can't be understand, I leave it. What is bad, I leave it. What I say... DEYTH BANGER Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that... FLORENCE WELCH I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet. SARAH JESSICA PARKER When you know what you're passionate about and what you want to do, just go for it and own it. VICTORIA JUSTICE The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney. FAMKE JANSSEN If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it. DAVID SCHWIMMER I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. ... CAMREN BICONDOVA I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why woul... STEVE CARELL When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was t... NATALIE ZEA I started in for the ball but I just couldn't get it. I should have caught it because I was used... AL KALINE I was just hoping the whole time it would go in. I kind of paused, but I hate when people hang their... LAUREN DUSIN In 1987 I got dartitis, a psychological condition which means you can't let your darts go proper... ERIC BRISTOW I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I One of our plans was to just throw it at the net, and (Chris) Murray did that. I just shot it and it... DAN WINNIK I?m just trying to let the game come to me. In practice, I shoot the ball non-stop. I get into a gam... DEBBIE MERRILL I don't develop anything. I don't practice, I don't rehearse. I just go out there, and i... TORY LANEZ Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list... THOMAS HARRIS I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just... CHERRY JONES I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had... HAILEE STEINFELD Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE I took my time and coach told me to take my time and see what I have, make the move when I'm around ... HILTON ARMSTRONG If something excites you, go for it. CHAD HURLEY You've gotta go for it, and go for it with gusto. ELIZABETH MITCHELL I decided to start painting when I was older just for the love of it. I just sit down in the den whe... ANDREA WARD I've kind of always had this balance between genre and personal dramas. It almost feels like the... JEFF NICHOLS When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Phil... MIKE BIRBIGLIA Please... Please ... Please tell this people after few more words that you are... DEYTH BANGER Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, '... MATTHEW LILLARD I wanted to make a move at that turn, but I just didn't do it. I made a mistake, and she opened it u... ISABELLA OCHICHI I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away. MICHELLE ROWEN I had a drummer I really wanted to move to Nashville with me, and he's like, 'Naw, I can'... JON PARDI The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY ...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it. ISAAC MARION Just because it's a trend should we do it? BERT MCCOY I look up and go, 'I'm living in the world I visualized a long time ago.' From making mo... RICHARD LINKLATER I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's ... BRYAN ADAMS Sometimes shit's gotta be done and I just fuckin' do it! MANUEL MONGRAIN I found the rubber first down in Turns 1 and 2, ... I searched around for it in Turns 3 and 4, I jus... STEVE KINSER I only did it because she wanted to and asked me to come with her, ... I just really didn't want to ... LINDA NORRIS I'm friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the ... TRIPLE H In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emoti... BRIE LARSON Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. STEPHEN KING When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg ... DAN O'BRIEN I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking... ELLEN BARKIN I just wanted to go for it and forget everything. JAY HAKKINEN If it were my decision, I'd knock the Superdome down. If I couldn't knock it down, I'd j... RAY NAGIN I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea... KIESZA I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time. GEORGINA CHAPMAN They said if I could deal with the pain, I should play. So, I did, and for some reason, I started hi... FREDDIE FREEMAN Find a way and make it happen: I've always been the type of person who couldn't rest until I... JOY MANGANO In any relationship, even when it came to my relationship with Usher, when it was time to make a mov... ROZONDA THOMAS As bad as I disagreed on stuff, I wanted to get a technical foul, but I didn't. When guys on the tea... STEPHEN JACKSON The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always ar... PAUL WALKER If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it SOTONYE ANGA Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. EDMUND BURKE How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stan... ROBIN WILLIAMS I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on Late Night. We just had a ... NORM MACDONALD If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don't see it anywhere else, I'... AL MICHAELS [Moore opened up his game, becoming more aggressive with groundstrokes and parlaying a few forays to... DANIEL MOORE Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with... KATE BALDWIN It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because the... FRANCIA RAISA Pain has creative power, Let the magic unfold... HENNA SOHAIL 'Postcards' was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, 'You can do anythi... JENS LEKMAN
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