Quotes About Opportunity

People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.

To anyone in the position to hire women directors: Make the commitment.

If somebody's in the community doing cool stuff, we'll hire them.

I would love to continue to challenge myself by trying different things. Action, Drama, Comedy. I would be grateful to do any and all of it if someone is kind enough to hire me!

There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like, 'I can do this with my life' kind of thing. And then, there are the jobs that maybe bring a certain level of awareness about you as an actor, where other people feel like they can hire you.

I think there's a reason why some companies have such dismal records. It's not because they're clueless; it's because they systematically don't want to hire women.

When I go to auditions, I try to always make sure I go in prepared. I always think to myself, 'I'm here to provide them with a service. They need me, and if they decide to hire me for this service, I'm going to give them the best they've ever paid for and if they don't, they're dumb.' That's on them.

Really go out of your way to hire women, people of color, homosexuals, transgendered people - go out of your way to hire them.

I'll continue working as long as people want to hire me.

Something I often say is, 'I stand on the shoulders of the people who came before, and I'm ready to lift up people to stand on my shoulders.' And one of the ways we can do that is to hire them.

Sure, it does help you get into a room, but at the end of the day, you have to be able to deliver, and you have to be talented, because they're not going to hire me because my dad is David Cassidy, who was famous in the '70s.

I tried to play anything people would hire me to play, because I was a musician.

People are going to hire you, or they're not, and there's only so much you can do to hedge your bets.

I really believe if I'm the best person for the role, I'll be hired. That's always been my experience.

I look for us - people of color in Hollywood, to create more stories as writers, directors and filmmakers, creating more opportunities for ethnic actors. At the end of the day, we have to be the ones giving jobs and telling the stories, not just waiting to be hired.

When I graduated, I was really lucky because I got hired immediately by CBS as a production assistant.

Del Toro absolutely treated me like anyone else - he came to England and hired me, I didnt have to go out there. If that guy gave me the job its my duty to make him think he hasnt made a mistake, so I was prepared for what I had to do.

I'll just say that there are certain people who continue to be hired in Hollywood, and that leaves me truly shocked.

Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.

There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything.

I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.