Jim Gaffigan Quotes About Opportunity

Quotes about: Opportunity

• Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia.

  Jim Gaffigan

  School, Holiday, Kids

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.222, Crown Archetype

• One thing I'm afraid of is not taking advantage of opportunities. I feel like these are kind of gifts.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Opportunity, Kind, Advantage

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'd been acting and doing stand-up in New York about eight years, getting rejected, and I finally got the opportunity to do stand-up on Letterman, which holds even more importance for me. With comedians, that's definitely the pinnacle, but being from Indiana, it was a big to-do.

  Jim Gaffigan

  New York, Opportunity, Eight

  "Partly Howdy - Jim Gaffigan Is a Midwestern Weatherman Who Takes On The Big City in 'Welcome To New York'". "The Record" Newspaper, November 29, 2000.

• I think it's important to control your opportunities, because in the entertainment world, it's not up to you. I'm not sitting here under this naïve belief that someone in Hollywood is going, "Gaffigan! What kind of a show can I build around him?" So you have to find things that can showcase your point of view.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Opportunity, Thinking, Views

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2006.

• There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Opportunity, People, Balance

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2006.

• Stand-up is so rewarding, and I enjoy the acting opportunities I've had, but the only time I really feel bad is when I feel like I have this manufactured belief that I should be doing something else or there should be some type of recognition. On an intellectual level, I know it's stupid.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Stupid, Opportunity, Intellectual

  Source: www.avclub.com

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