Quotes About Opportunity

Slowly and steadily I'm preparing myself for Bollywood and I can't wait till I get an opportunity.

If you have talent and you work really hard, it increases your odds but it doesn't ensure anything. But every now and then, the universe must tilt in your direction.

You talk about Shaq, I would put Tim Duncan in that same category. Mr. Fundamental, just kept things simple. He is a great teammate, a great player, and a great person. When you have those ingredients in a champion, you just want to be a part of that and have an opportunity to play with him.

It's a good community, country music, because we get the chance to sit down and... me and Tim McGraw spend a lot of time. Me and Kenny Chesney had the opportunity to spend a lot of time together. It's been a lot of great advice through the years.

Tim Story is a fantastic director, and I'm so excited to get to work with him.

I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.

I would meet Tim Elliott at 135. At heavyweight if he wanted.

When Tim and I first discussed the part in 2003, he told me, 'I'd love for you to play five Oompas.' But five Oompas quickly turned into 165 - and they're not computerized; I did each one individually myself.

This never happens, but I was writing with my friend Ryan Hurd and Eric Arjes, and we wrote this song called 'Last Turn Home.' The next day, my publisher emailed it to Tim McGraw's label. He listened to it, and I think within the week, he went into the studio and recorded it. And that never happens.

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, and I'm very lucky to have worked with Isabel Coixet, who is also one of my favourite directors.

I really want to work with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp.

My worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.'

I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would've known what to do with me. If I hadn't done 'Beetlejuice,' I think I would've just gone back to my school.

Jayne Houdyshell and I - when I was 17 years old - did summer stock together at the Timber Lake Playhouse in Mt. Carroll, IL. She was the leading lady of the company, and I was an intern.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Playing games is the best time of your life, and the more games you get, the better it is.

If you give time and space to players, they will make good decisions and score goals.

In the end, not only the team, but the players themselves benefit from having to prove their worth time and time again, too.