Quotes About Opportunity

When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

The percentage of people that go to drama college in the U.K. is probably just like anywhere in the world. It's a very hard business to work in. They say that, at any one time, there's only 5% of actors in the world that are actually working and getting paid, which is a shocking percentage, really.

Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'

I don't think of people as black or white. It's a question of are they photogenic or not? I don't think anyone says, 'Let's book her. She's black.' I think they say, 'Let's book her. She's good.' We've come that far.

They say Afghanistan is the worst country for a girl to be born. Hogwash!

I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.

Over the season, the games come thick and fast, and in some games, you aren't so lucky.

Opportunity makes a thief.

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.

Terry Malick offered me three parts in 'The Thin Red Line.' I was busy shooting other movies while he asked me the first two.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

The thought that came to my mind when I was called for Naagin' was, Oh my god!' The next one was, I have to become thin now to look like a nice, hot naagin.' I was like, Jasmin now you have to stop eating butter chicken and pizzas!'

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

The greatest thing about America is this country is the place everyone wants to be.

The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.

Taking risks is the best thing ever, and that's what gets you anywhere.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

The more things you do, the more you can do.

When things are going bad, there's going to be some good that's going to come from it.

Sometimes when I'm nervous, that's when the most interesting things happen.

I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities.