Quotes About Opportunity

I am a lucky regional theater actor who happened to get a good role.

I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn't good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

I guess my first professional experience was when my church choir director told my mother that I had a gift with my voice and said that I should think about auditioning, at 11 years old, for the chorus of our regional opera company.

'Miss Saigon' was my first professional show. It was one of the first regional productions of 'Miss Saigon.'

I would love to do regional cinema, provided the role is exciting enough and artistically challenging.

I did Tamil film, 'Mehandi Circus.' I want to do Bangla cinema and other regional and foreign languages.

My career, definitely, the early years were a little scattershot, in terms of - it was a little regional theater, it was a lot of voiceovers, it was a lot of random day jobs. I mean, it was hard. It was hard to scrap around, and once 'Hairspray' happened, then it all kind of clicked into place.

'Baahubali' has definitely increased hopes for a lot of regional filmmakers. After all, what I have learnt is that it only takes one 'Baahubali' to enter into the audience's hearts and cross the boundaries.

I owe all the name and fame I have earned to regional cinema.

If given an opportunity I would act in regional films.

All this while when I was not seen in Hindi films, I did a lot of regional cinema. I was a part of various Gujarati, Punjabi and Bhojpuri films.

I am doing what I want to. It doesn't matter if it is a Karan Johar film or a regional film or a short film.

I think of the world as geographical regions, and it excites me to think about the opportunity that Europe can have if we consider it to be the 500-million-people region that it is.

A map of Trump country would look a lot like a map of the various regions and counties from which young people with the best opportunities have consistently chosen to flee.

I hope we business people can invest more aggressively outside Metro Manila, whether in real estate, factories, or other enterprises, in order to give equal opportunities to all other regions.

Cities and regions change. It doesn't happen overnight, but diversifying your economy is the only real route.

I don't want to say no to anything. If I did a blockbuster, it would probably be fun. But who knows? Maybe I would connect to something. But definitely, indie movies are the ones I register with, for sure.

I love to never regret, or go, 'I wish I would have tried that.'

I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don't regret a minute of it; it was a great learning experience.

Given the opportunity, I might change a choice I made, but you can't regret making what you thought was the best decision at the time.

My only regret is that I didn't play for Howard Wilkinson earlier. I would have achieved more and played even longer if I had.

You tend to regret the things you haven't done.

I have nothing but regret that I cannot continue to behave the way I behaved all my life, and I can't wait for a chance to behave immoderately again.