Quotes About Opportunity

All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic opportunities.

Hispanics are hard working, and that's something I'm very passionate about.

I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business.

As one of the very few black historians who, from time to time, appears on TV, my daily life is a constant, open-air focus group.

When our Founding Fathers wrote the historic words 'all men are created equal,' they probably didn't have people like me in mind.

I don't have a dream role as such, but given a chance, I would want to play a historic role.

I have been in the industry for five years and would love to play a historical character.

Previously, I was in a historical drama so I'm happy to show my romantic act, even though it's short.

Creating more characters that represent historically marginalized and historically disenfranchised people in television and film is certainly important.

I want to push the boundaries on the roles that have historically been given to actresses who look like me. There is so much more we can do. There always has been.

Currently, many job seekers must check a box on their applications indicating whether they have a criminal history. These boxes are often used as proxies for job fitness, and job-seekers with criminal histories frequently find themselves screened out of contention. As a matter of basic fairness and also economic sense, it's time to ban the box.

It's not a bad ball if I can hit it.

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

There is no hit formula to make it big in Bollywood.

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I thought, 'Whatever hits, I'll go that direction. If it's music, fine; if it's acting, fine.'

Hits and flops will always be there for any actor.

When you're doing things like Glastonbury main stage, and there's 80,000 people and your hits are going off, it's at those moments you sit back and breathe and take it in, man, cos it might never happen again.

I was up for parts in 'Charlie's Angels' and 'Three's Company,' but other people got them. At the time I was very disappointed because I knew the shows would be tremendous hits. But if I had done either I would not have done the following: 'Chorus Line,' 'Dancin',' 'Chicago,' 'Movie Movie,' 'All That Jazz' and 'Annie.'

If a hitter gets hot, I wouldn't take a hot hitter out of the lineup.

Baseball was a chapter in my life, and now I'm excited to start another chapter as a hitting coach.

Throughout my career, I've always loved hitting deep shots over the top. A lot of times, those plays just come to you. You don't want to force it.

I stay out after training and practice hitting balls from different angles just in case the chances come in a game.

The same day I was supposed to go to college, I ended up hitting the studio and then poppin' out on the block after that.