Quotes About Opportunity

I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

So as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve. I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles.

I don't know so much about making it, because I think of myself as a working actor who's always got my eye on what's going to be the next job. I've been acting for 22 years, and I think there's something to be said for simply staying in the game.

As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.

I'll just put it this way: I've struggled enough as a working actor - and, most of the times, a not working actor - to know that anytime you are working is a blessing.

When you're a working actor you see a lot of scripts all the time, but to get to do something that's really well written it's a rare privilege.

Personally, I've learned about perseverance: when you hear the word 'No,' and when you hear rejection, that it's not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.

I never underestimate luck and working hard.

I feel very privileged to do what I do, so I'm just going to keep working hard and enjoy every minute of it because it could be over just like that.

I want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can not just survive, but you can have a decent life.

I never took things for granted. I always told myself to keep working hard, come to the ballpark ready to play, and one day I'll get a chance to play.

I just believe in working hard, and whatever comes my way, I try and give it my best.

Everyone wants to be in the first team, but you have to accept the situation and keep working hard.

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

My parents taught me the value of hard work, that people don't mind working hard as long as they get to share in the prosperity they create.

Growing up in Ridgeville, South Carolina, pretty much all I saw was people working hard.

I know I can't plan in this business, but I'm going to keep going as long as I keep getting close... So far, I feel lucky and infinitely grateful for the successes that I've had. I'm just going to keep working hard, and whatever happens, happens.

A lot of people don't have near the amount of success as I've been blessed to have, and it's all about working hard and hoping that continues.

Everyone has to work hard, there is no short-cut. If you keep working hard there are a lot of musicians on a lookout for new voices.

Let's not look at working hard as a negative; let's look at it as an uplifting opportunity for us to be better.

Just because you're part of 'Twilight' does not mean you're a superstar. It means that you're given the opportunity to maybe become one later if you work hard. Once fandom goes away, which it will very soon, it's all about having your priorities straight and working hard.

My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.

There's no real road map to L.A. Everyone's journey is different. You have to persevere and be willing to put everything in it. You have to stick it out. I don't really have a safety net, but what I do is put myself in the best possible position to succeed by working hard. Also, be careful who you let into your life.

I would say one must just keep working hard and not lose faith. You don't know when destiny is going to come your way, what opportunity comes your way.