Quotes About Opportunity

The Bills gave me my first opportunity. In my mind, I'll be forever grateful for that organization.

If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one.

I want to go back to college for sure! Who doesn't, right? All your bills are paid for. You're there with all of your friends.

We were in the position after our sextuplets were born that we could not pay our bills. We did the show to provide a better life for them.

I did a play in Bolton - 'Billy Liar.' I turned it down at first but then thought, 'What the hell else can I do? I'm no good at anything else.'

Apart from playing Billy Flynn in 'Chicago' in the West End, Ive not done much acting.

I think I've made some choices that maybe I wasn't so sure about for some reason or another. But I'm one of the lucky ones. Even when I was young, I played Bird, and that's a role people wait for their whole lifetime.

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

I left school on my 15th birthday.

Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young.

I wanted to be a bartender for a bit.

Because in this business, as you know, you don't get that many bites at the apple, so I make documentaries for HBO and that's what I do.

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

The opportunity to be bizarre - I am bizarre, aren't I? - is just so wonderful, isn't it?

I'm always open to anything. I haven't been that selective, I've just been fortunate to get projects I'm excited about. It's a little bizarre being a part of things that you really, really enjoy.

We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

I want to do a black comedy with Homi Adajania and also want to work with Vishal Bhardwaj, Imtiaz Ali and Anurag Kashyap.

I do think with wrestling as a whole, one of the tough things, especially for women, more for the black community is that a lot of the times it's hard to get attention or you're working in places where it's not being streamed.

With 'Carrie,' I did, like, seven auditions. I'd never done a movie, so they wanted to make sure I wasn't going to ruin it. I don't blame them.

Can you blame star kids for that? If I'm somebody's daughter, and I'm being offered a film, why would I say no?

I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.

The Blanks has just been a godsend because I don't have to sit around waiting for the phone to ring and I get to go out and be gainfully employed while I'm waiting for another job.