Quotes About Opportunity

I've never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.

My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations.

I kept being told, 'If you really want to build a start up, you have to be in San Francisco,' so I ended up taking out a suitcase. It did occur to me to do it in London but it's very, very difficult to build a start up in London - so I guess I was being lazy.

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.

I came to New York with no money and just one suitcase. I had my family's emotional support, but they weren't able to help me financially.

I moved to New York in 2003 with about $100 bucks in my pocket and a suitcase.

Miami gave me an opportunity to grow. I wanted to see if I was really a one-team guy, or if I picked up my suitcases and set up shop somewhere else, would I be able to make the team?

When I moved to L.A., I had nothing but a computer, a lighting set, and a suitcase.

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

I was asked if I would play President Obama in 'My Name is Khan.' I didn't feel comfortable with doing it. Partly because he was still in office, but mainly because I felt that there were other people who were better suited to doing the role.

I want all Latinos to know the American dream is alive. I believe in economic liberty. I believe there's no demographic more suited to achieving the American dream than Latinos.

Oftentimes, actors don't have the luxury of picking their part. You go from one project to the next, and you hope that you find one that fits you and that you're suited for, and then they see that you're fit for it.

Sibi Malayali sir saw a picture of me in a Malayalam daily and felt I was suited for a role in his movie 'Ishtam.' My parents were opposed to it as they felt I was too young, but I persisted and prevailed.

Whenever rejected, I thought maybe the director saw someone better suited for that role than me. I didn't think of it as so and so is someone's son or relative who got preference.

English football is really suited to me.

I think the way I played, I would have suited Sundowns.

I think I would play well in England. With my height I am suited to the long ball and with the kind of crosses they put in, in England I think it would be better for me to play there.

By the time 'Suits' had come around, I had been acting for maybe six years. 'Deal or No Deal' - I like to call it my very lucrative waitressing job. Most actors find a way to make a living while they're auditioning, and for me, holding a briefcase was an incredibly lucrative means of being able to pursue what I really wanted to do.

I love the life in LA, it really suits this point in time, but London is home. I feel like I'm lucky that I get to have a bit of both, so rather than have to choose life just works out where I have to be in one place.

Playing in Japan suits me the best, but what I need is in the Majors. I felt that in order to do my job, I needed to change my job location.

I am open to them. If I come across something interesting, and I think it suits me, I may do a horror movie.

If someone comes with an interesting script where the negative role suits me, I will definitely take it up.

Don't count Jessica out on 'Suits,' 'cause those boys are going to mess up, and they're going to have to call me. I believe that. I don't know when, I don't know how, but that story's not done, 'cause everybody comes back.

By the time I got 'Suits,' I thought my time in Hollywood was coming to an end.