Quotes About Opportunity

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.

I was particularly happy to do a potential franchise where I was not putting on a mask or a pair of tights.

Extraordinary circumstances often bring along with them extraordinary strength. No man knows, till the experiment, what he is capable of effecting.

I started acting when I was seven, and I didn't get my first role till I was nine. So for two years, I was just auditioning.

Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.

I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.

I was a complete vagabond till the age of 20, when I got my first job as an assistant director with Pankaj Parashar.

Till now I have mostly done the glam roles. But I do look forward to work for films which will give me more scope to perform as an actor.

Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.

Till now, I've not had the chance to dance in my films, but in 'Tej I Love You,' I have to dance. I know Sai Dharam Tej is a good dancer, so I am putting in a few hours of practice with the choreographer.

I think I maximised my opportunity at Bolton, changing the mindset of the people from when I arrived till the time I left.

Every time a new CEO came, I got a promotion till I was made CEO myself.

When you act for a living, you are lucky enough to get to say things you really want to say. You get lines that you look forward to, lines that jump out like a jack-in-the-box; you're thinking: 'Wait till you hear this.'

When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.

I long had a goal of becoming president of a company. But it was not till I was 57 years old that I became president of Cisco Systems with its 34 employees. Life offers opportunity at every stage.

People are always asking me if the industry is changing, and my answer is always that it is changing only as much as we are. Many South Asian actors complain about being pigeonholed into playing terrorists and cab drivers, but it's time that we stop talking about it. The industry will always say 'No' till we have enough to convince them.

You don't realize it till you get older as an actor, but all the parts you've gotten have led you up to today - good, bad, and otherwise.

I didn't really get any success till I was 30 years old. I played music when I was young fella, but I didn't really get any success till I was about 30 years old.

My mom is 60. She has been in the industry for over 30 years and till date, she auditions for movies. It's a myth that star kids don't have to give auditions.

Till I did 'Dor,' people only offered me roles of that bubbly, vivacious girl.

Till 1966 when the Green Revolution came to Punjab, nobody grew this crop. Only when farmers saw money in it, did they start rice cultivation.

I studied only till class VII at the Andhra Society High School, Wadala and dropped out when I realised that education was not my cup of tea.