Quotes About Opportunity

In all pomposity and humility, I just wanted to show what I could do as an actor, and I jumped when 'Lootera' came my way.

Once I was making £10,000 for an hour's work, but there have been years where my promotional stuff has brought in only a few hundred.

You go on a million auditions anyway as an actor, and one out of a hundred, you get. It's a hard life, but you can't really think about it that way.

My story is the American Dream, a hundred percent.

I'd like to do a hundred different films.

I don't care more about '13' because it's in the Olivier than I did about 'Cock' in a 100-seat studio. They both matter because it's still a person sat there watching your play. And the play has to be good enough - because there are a hundred other writers out there who deserve to have their play on instead.

I haven't gotten hundreds of jobs that I've auditioned for.

I could have earned lots of crores by doing hundreds of more 'Rangeela' that came my way.

Writing 'If Chloe Can' has taken me on an amazing journey: from launching the event at Downing Street, to a performance to 1,000 inner-city school girls at a West End theatre, then to an audience of hundreds more at the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Every day we're here is an opportunity to do what we can to make the world right, to help someone close or far from us, to not get so hung up on what we can't do, and remember what we can.

And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.

I've tried to apply for jobs and I've been hung up on because of how I speak.

I have a hunger for good roles.

PSG has moulded me into becoming a fighter and that player who has the hunger to come to a new club and fight for a position.

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'

Everyone in Hollywood wanted a role in this movie. Everyone wanted to have a part in it. I feel so lucky that I got one, but what I find so cool about 'Hunger Games' is that the real star is the story itself.

I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.

I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.

Everyone has a moment where life goes off the rails.

She said in the way you might wish someone good luck on the lottery.

That would be our luck.