Quotes About Opportunity

When your time comes, you need to grab it with both hands.

The Internet is fundamentally free, and when faced with the decision to use something free, we, as humans, always seek to grab all we can.

I am an artist who is ready to grab interesting roles that comes my way.

People are getting tired of the same material; they want to see black girls as leads in movies. And I happen to be lucky enough to understand that - and be able to grab that opportunity and run with it.

You learn from being out of the team, but it makes you desperate for another chance, and when it comes along, you just have to grab it. Don't let go.

Some people just look at opportunities and say, 'Maybe something better might come along; let's wait and see.' But you don't wait. You just grab it and go after it.

I can't grab anything that comes my way just because it's from a big banner.

You work so hard to get to a level and you need to grab your chance with both hands.

I constantly know that showbiz is going to be short-lived, you have to grab every opportunity as well as you can.

Personally, I am not thinking about batting only at No. 4. I want to be someone who is very flexible batting at any number or if you go into any situation you should be able to grab that opportunity and make the best use of it.

I think it is important to grab the moment and be ready when the opportunity is in front of you, but people may not be ready when that moment arrives.

Success in a career sometimes comes in strange ways. You grab it in whatever way it happens.

I've had an interesting career, and I don't know if it was by chance or grace.

Every day, I think, by the grace of God, I'm here, blessed to be a U.S. citizen, but I could have just as easily been a Dreamer too.

I am going to oblige all my TV commitments, and if films work out, I will make a graceful exit.

When I was in the 9th grade I was flunking out of high school. And that's why I'm so encouraged by the fact that America is the place where opportunity and American exceptionalism is alive and well.

When I was in seventh grade, I was bored out of my mind. We seemed to be learning the same things over and over in science and math, and two of the boys in my class were allowed to move ahead into these advanced classes, but I wasn't allowed because I was a girl.

My parents were sharecrop farm kids with no education - seventh, eighth grade.

My first audition ever was for 'Bye Bye Birdie' in fifth grade.

I had no money, no grades, no athletic ability. Nothing but hope.

I wanted to go to LaGuardia High School for acting, but my math grades weren't high enough. So I didn't get to go to a school that was geared toward the art that I was interested in because I wasn't good enough at math.

I tell my AAU kids all the time how important it is to get good grades, go to college, get your degree to make your life easier.

The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky.

When teachers would say, 'When you all graduate, you won't have anywhere to go' - I'm the type of person playing chess and thinking ahead. I thought that was a good question. Am I going to be winging it? I didn't want to be in that position, so I set myself up to go to college.