Quotes About Opportunity

I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.

I once said to someone, 'If I could shave my head and wear no makeup and get a part just on my talent, I would be the happiest person in the world.'

I know that I wouldn't mind going back to work if I could find the right script and the right crew to work with.

Not every woman has what I have, so if I could do something to help them, that should also be my duty.

I knew that I was smart enough to learn. I knew that I could learn, if I could just go to school and not hear gunshots.

If I could go back in time to Freshers' Week, I'd tell myself to make the most of university. Enjoy the fact you have all this time to do things you love. People always say that to you when you're about to start, but you never listen, do you?

When I started coaching, I wanted to find out quickly if I could do it.

If I could have had the opportunity to be a full-time fighter while I was one of the best in the world, what could I have done then?

I could say, you know, if I could work with Seth Rollins at some point in time, that would be a lot of fun.

I found myself in this conundrum of loving acting, but not liking the path that you have to take to do it. I was just never good at auditioning, so basically I decided I would just write my own stuff and if I could get a role in it, then fine.

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

If I could have my kids be great when the lights are on, whatever the moment is, to be accountable and then fix it, they're going to be fine.

I don't want to be the guy who said 'I could have did this, and I could have did that.' I want to be the guy to know if I could have or I couldn't do it.

Of course it's a big moment for me in my career if I could win on the PGA Tour.

When I was 19 my friends dared me to come to Los Angeles and see if I could make it down here.

I had this idea when I left drama school that if I could do everything, I'd always be working.

Life in L.A. has been amazing. It's been really hard, it's been eventful. It's a lot of what ifs and maybes and being hopeful.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

I was never lined up outside of my bosses office saying 'Give me an opportunity; there's not a woman in primetime'... I was just trying to be so good they couldn't ignore me.

Look at Kartik Aaryan, Ayushmann Khurrana - they aren't from the industry, they worked very hard. Varun Dhawan is a great actor. I know how hard he works on his craft and even in the gym, so you can't ignore that and just talk about him being a director's son.

I don't think women are being sidelined or ignored. If they are talented enough, they will get films. But they need to be more ambitious.

China is the world's largest lighting market. That should not be ignored lightly.

We've done as best a job as we can making it clear that I'm earning what I'm earning because of me and not because of who my father is. But at the same time, I'm not ignoring things that would be dumb to ignore, like people that I can know through him and experiences I can have through him and things that I can learn from him.

We started CapitalSource because large banks were ignoring small to mid-sized businesses, and we saw a big business opportunity as a result.