Quotes About Opportunity

Here's something we're rarely told growing up: our world rewards wealth, not hard work or talent.

You can never fight for a part or can't beg them to do another audition. You can try, but that rarely works.

The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

It happens very rarely that your ears perk up about a certain project.

Sometimes you walk out of an audition and you kind of know you nailed it and you're probably going to book it, but you very rarely are told in the room by the people who are hiring you.

I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.

There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.

We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.

My husband's a man's man, and he does guy films, and there's rarely any female parts in them, period, but we have some projects that are for me that we hope to do in the near future.

Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.

Films set in 90210 are ten a penny. But there's rarely room to make films about a different postal code, to show the lives of ordinary Americans who have to live with very limited material resources.

As roles go, very rarely do you get a role written for you or a director who wants you and only you for the part.

But the fact I'm even getting to play a character that the producer, director and writers want me to play is a rarity in the industry. You'd think it happens all the time. It doesn't. There are so many hoops to jump through to get cast in something.

I feel like it's been so crazy to get to open for people like Rascal Flatts, Lady A, Billy Currington.

It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the country. I don't believe this is a rash decision.

My first job was in pantomime; I was a chorus girl in 'Dick Whittington' at 16. I got the part by ringing the director daily to see if anyone had dropped out, and it paid off eventually, when I was cast as a rat!

I'm not in any rat race. This allows me to take up roles that are traditionally considered risky for a heroine to essay.

My work with Combate Americas, in particular, has been incredible because the company keeps growing at an incredible rate.

The reason why we have 19 percent women in places like Congress is because we don't run at the same rate as men. And I think one of the things we're starting to realize is we have to step into the arena.

Jobs in technology have the rapidest rate of growth. The need for computer science is so incredibly large, and it's important that girls of all colors have the opportunity to move into that field.

The only reason I was offered 'Punisher' was because I had made an indie film that was rated R for violence and was filled with fight scenes.

What we know is that when girls don't go to school, they earn lower salaries. They get married earlier. They have higher infant and maternal mortality rates. And they're more likely to contract HIV, less likely to immunize their children.

Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.